Vol. 133 No. 5
NATION
The new President talks about the deficit, taxes and Gorbachev
A Brightly Colored Tinderbox
Miami's latest riot highlights tensions between immigrants and native-born blacks
American Notes AVIATION
Two Engines Are Better
American Notes BASEBALL
Ninth-Inning Pardon
American Notes ETHICS
Experience Required
American Notes JUSTICE
The Last Word On Meese
American Notes NEW YORK CITY
Bark, You're on Canine Camera
Cover Stories "A New Breeze Is Blowing"
Behind Bush's appeal to altruism, something else is going on: the beginning of a careful retreat from promises that cannot be met
Slaughter in A School Yard
The Education of a Standby
Dan Quayle gets a cram course -- just in case
The Gipper Says Goodbye
As a new cast moves onstage, the Reagans leave to a standing ovation
WORLD
A police crackdown in Prague mars a human-rights accord
El Salvador An Offer They Couldn't Refuse
As elections near, the rebels mount a violent offensive
Israel A Moral Dilemma
Conflicting demands rend the army: be humane but also crush the Palestinian uprising
Kampuchea Is Peace at Hand?
Fears persist of a possible return by the murderous Khmer Rouge
Soviet Union The Shaky Fortunes of Gorby Inc.
With the leader's stock faltering, is a takeover possible?
West Germany Anger and Recrimination
The debate heats up over what Bonn knew about the Libya plant
World
World Notes BRAZIL
A Fiscal Deep Freeze
World Notes BRITAIN
City of Filth
World Notes DIPLOMACY
Talking About Talks
World Notes IRAQ
The Poison This Time
HEALTH & MEDICINE
97-lb. weaklings no more, teens take steroids to bulk up
Special Report: Good and Bad News About AIDS (Medicine)
How to Block A Killer's Path New infections are down among gays but up in the drug culture
The Other Dangers of Close Encounters (Medicine)
PRESS
After a stage-managed era, reporters hope for openness
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 133 No. 5 JANUARY 30, 1989
Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 133 No. 5 JANUARY 30, 1989
BUSINESS
Business Notes BAD DEBTS
Paying Off the Czar's IOUs
Business Notes CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
A Little on The High Side
Business Notes HOMESTEADING
Go North, Young Man!
Business Notes OIL
So Happy Together?
Business Notes TOBACCO
Less Smoke, More Fire
Crackdown on The Chicago Boys
An undercover FBI sting rounds up evidence of widespread fraud in the city's freewheeling commodities markets
Hitsville Goes Hollywood
Motown hopes to bring its golden touch to films and television
Knitting New Notions
To fathom the boom-and-borrow Reagan years, chastened U.S. economists jettison rigid formulas and move toward a more pragmatic philosophy
One Toe over The Line
Big banks get the go-ahead to enter Wall Street turf
EDUCATION
A new book shows how widely math is misunderstood
LAW
A controversial sentencing scheme gets a go-ahead
Sculpture Clash
Who owns artistic copyrights?
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The raging Goya was actually a man of the Enlightenment, a masterly show argues
A Ghostly Past, in Ragtime (Theater)
Chocolate-Covered Razor Blades And other treats from a fun funk band (Music)
Clockwork Plot (Books)
Critics' Choice (Critics' Choice)
Pedro on The Verge of a Nervy Breakthrough (Cinema)
Almodovar hits it big with his steamy melodramas
Sallie's Turn (Books)
Second Storming of the Bastille (Music)
A fight for control of Paris' new opera reaches fortissimo
The History of the Bomb (Video)
PEOPLE
It's a long way from Harlem's Theresa Hotel to chairing the Democratic Party, but RONALD BROWN may get there -- and become the nation's most prominent black official