Vol. 142 No. 16
COVER
Confronting Chaos (Cover Stories)
Defending His Boss
How the Troops See It
Letters Home
Red October
The Trouble with Good Intentions in Feeding Somalia and Backing Yeltsin, America Discovers the Limits of Idealism the Cold War Is
Over. Can America Manage the Peace?
NATION
Big League Consumer Reports (The Week)
Debts and Von Taxis (The Week)
Dispatches Tailhook, the Sequel (The Week)
Dispatches (The Week)
Thirty Years Dead, the Sparrow Lives
Exception That Makes Rules (The Week)
From the World's Headlines (The Week)
Thanks to the army, Boris Yeltsin has routed his opposition -- at least for now -- and confirmed his promise of elections, but Russian democracy remains fragile
Health Report (The Week)
Informed Sources (The Week)
News Digest October 3-9 (The Week)
News Digest October 3-9 (The Week)
Now Tell Us How You Really Feel (The Week)
Raw Data (The Week)
Raw Data (The Week)
Spotlight (The Week)
Talk of the Streets (The Week)
The Week (The Week)
The Week (The Week)
Vox Pop (The Week)
WORLD
Second Time Lucky? (Pakistan)
Bhutto wins a plurality, but the election outcome points toward further political paralysis
Testing Times (China)
Tough rhetoric and an atomic blast underline worsening ties between Beijing and the West
The Forgotten War (Angola)
As the world's attention is diverted elsewhere, three million people are threatened by a deepening tragedy of fighting, hunger and disease
The Last Best Chance for Yeltsin (Russia)
SCIENCE
Hot Time for a Cool Contest
Records fall in the fierce competition to create superconductors at higher and higher temperatures
Recycling: Stalled At Curbside (Environment)
More and more people are sorting their garbage, but industry often can't handle the volume
SOCIETY
For the champagne industry, oversupply and slumping sales put troubles in the bubbles
SPORT
With nothing left to conquer (and perhaps tired of playing himself as others see him), Michael Jordan breaks away from the game that made him
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time International Masthead OCTOBER 18, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 16 (Masthead)
Time Magazine Contents Page OCTOBER 18, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 16 (Contents)
Time Magazine Masthead OCTOBER 18, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 16 (Masthead)
Traveler's Advisory
BUSINESS
After a slow start, solar power seems poised to light up the world -- and utilities are getting the message
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Back to the New Frontier (Reviews Books)
Fellowship Of Endurance (Reviews Books)
Futuristic Face-Off (Reviews Cinema)
Heart Of Darkness (Reviews Music)
In a Fearful Free Fall (Reviews Television)
Love's Labour's Cost (Reviews Music)
Marilyn Monroe At the Opera (Music)
Her story shapes the latest in a wave of dramatic, accessible new American works
Reviews Cinema (Reviews Cinema)
Riefenstahl's Last Triumph (Cinema)
At 91, the controversial director of Hitler documentaries speaks out in a memoir and a film
Rooms of Their Own (Literature)
Both were born in Ohio to African-American parents who had migrated from the South. Both became writers. Last week Rita Dove began her term as the U.S. poet laureate. And novelist Toni Morrison won th
Rooms of Their Own (Literature)
Both were born in Ohio to African-American parents who had migrated from the South. Both became writers. Last week Rita Dove began her term as the U.S. poet laureate. And novelist Toni Morrison won th
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