Vol. 133 No. 10
NATION
Of Deficits and Diplomacy
American Notes CALIFORNIA
Plugging into City Hall
American Notes CRIME
Riding a White Mare
American Notes IMMIGRATION
Hard Times for Refugees
American Notes LOS ANGELES
"Strawberry" Suspect
Blowout Over The Pacific
Another Boeing passenger plane "peels" in midair
Climbing Mount Everest (American Ideas)
What It Takes To Reach the Summit An ascent involves money, hype, sex, stamina, skill and the faint beat of great wings
Collapse of A Confirmation
White House blunders and Sam Nunn's power scuttle Tower
Is This Goodbye?
A Senate committee stuns Bush by rejecting Tower's nomination
Gallery Of Rejects
In Search of a Good Name
The debate over whether blacks should be called African Americans is about more than just a label
Kluck! Kluck! Kluck!
An ex-Klansman's win brings the G.O.P. chickens home to roost
Letting Down the Tribe
Scandal tarnishes a Navajo leader
WORLD
A playwright and popular hero is jailed
Japan "With Grief, We Bid You Farewell"
An Emperor is laid to rest and so, too, is a turbulent era
Middle East Enter the Soviet Union
Shevardnadze steps in where the U.S. hesitates to tread
Soviet Union Heading into the Homestretch
Election rules lead to controversy and occasional setbacks
Terrorism The New Satans
As the West wakes up, Khomeini confirms that the real fight is in Iran
World Notes AFGHANISTAN
Conflicting Consensus
World Notes EL SALVADOR
Strong Words, Deadly Deeds
World Notes SOVIET UNION
Dealing with The Fallout
World Notes WEST GERMANY
More Bad Chemistry
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Chilean wines impress even the Rothschilds
Watch Those Vegetables, Ma (Health)
Pesticide-laden produce may endanger your tots
SOCIETY
Electronic boards teach new music lessons
PRESS
An independent TV show keeps the spotlight on apartheid
RELIGION
A multimedia appeal to the "unchurched Harrys"
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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BUSINESS
Too Crisp For Words
Business Notes GAMBLING
Rolling Sevens Out at Sea
Business Notes RETAILERS
If You Can't Beat 'Em . . .
Business Notes SECURITIES FRAUD
Crackdown on La Bolsa
Business Notes TOYS
Chatter from The Batter
Feeling The Heat
A burst of inflation rattles the stock market, sends interest rates bolting, and threatens to put the Fed and the White House on a collision course
Is That You on TV, Grandpa?
Commercials feature a hot new cast of characters: older people
Shake, Rattle and Roar Thunder in the distance?
No, it's a "boom car" coming
Sock It to Me!
Shoppers hop to the hose shops
LAW
The Supreme Court absolves states in child-abuse cases
No Happy Ending
Parole board keeps The Thin Blue Line hero behind bars
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Critics' Choice (Critics' Choice)
Pay-Per-View Starts Perking (Video)
A spate of mega-events spurs a new TV option
Peter Pan Flies Again (Show Business)
Dance master Jerome Robbins returns triumphantly to Broadway
Return Of Ecomania (Books)
A successor to The Name of the Rose sweeps Italy
The View from the '80s (Show Business)
Three's Company (Cinema)
PEOPLE
Former jock and campus radical HARRY EDWARDS now works to put minorities into the front offices of professional baseball