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THE SUMMIT: GORBACHEV INTERVIEW
On the eve of his meeting with George Bush, the embattled Soviet President expresses hope for his country, anger at his critics, advice for foreign leaders and supreme confidence in himself. He clearly sees himself as the leader of a new Russian Revolution and a visionary for the end of the century.
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THE SUMMIT: A SUPERPOWER DEAL
Behind the Sandinistas' stunning election loss in Nicaragua is the secret story of U.S.-Soviet partnership in Central America. George Bush may lack Mikhail Gorbachev's grand vision, but he and his advisers proved their mastery of creative diplomacy.
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NATION: Is the Government paying for pornography?
Jesse Helms is leading a right-wing assault on the National Endowment for the Arts. But his anti-obscenity campaign threatens to stifle free expression and many worthwhile projects. -- Design flaws in nuclear warheads could have triggered an atomic disaster. -- A sweeping civil rights bill for the | disabled. -- Twenty years after the murder of her best friend, a woman testifies that Daddy did it.
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WORLD: China one year after Tiananmen
The communist leadership stifles dissent as it tries to put the best face on an unpopular regime. -- How many really died last June? -- Three lives, then and now.
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BUSINESS: Many banks are making credit tough to get
Beset by new regulations and bad old loans, lenders cut back and customers feel the crunch. -- Attacking the lucrative drug-accessory trade. -- Andrew Tobias dissects a savings plan.
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BEHAVIOR: Do people get hooked on sex?
Psychologists are in a hot debate over whether men and women who engage in compulsive sexual practices are addicts, just like junkies dependent on the next fix.
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PRESS: Discontent in this old Newhouse
At the prestigious magazine and book divisions, the shadowy family style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and -- increasingly -- by tumult.
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CINEMA: Director David Lynch is the king of Cannes
His bizarre new comedy, Wild at Heart, eclipses once suppressed East European films to take the festival's top prize, just as word arrives that his TV series, Twin Peaks, has been renewed.
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ETHICS: When parents return an adopted child
An increasing number of unwanted children are being sent back to agencies. Who should bear the heavy emotional and financial burden?
10 Letters
21 Grapevine
80 Video
80 Health
83 Education
86 Books
89 Religion
89 Milestones
90 People
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