Vol. 142 No. 25

NATION

Folks, We Are Being Held on the Launch Pad Due to Meteors (Chronicles)

Health Report (Chronicles)

Informed Sources (Chronicles)

Inside Washington the Damage of Pollard's Espionage (Chronicles)

Reassuring News (Chronicles)

The 10 Most Requested Celebrity-Look-Alikes From Ron Smith's L.a. Look-Alikes Firm* (Chronicles)

The Satanic Reverses (Chronicles)

The Week November 28 - December 4 (Chronicles)

Toy-Related Deaths (Chronicles)

Vatican Guessing Game (Chronicles)

Vox Pop (Chronicles)

Winners & Losers (Chronicles)

WORLD

Frightening Face-Off (The Koreas)
Washington considers hard-line options as the North balks at inspection of nuclear sites

From Rebels to Rulers (Middle East)
Even if Israeli withdrawal is delayed, the P.L.O. doesn't have much time to turn into a government

No Secrets Among Enemies (Northern Ireland)
The search for peace between the I.R.A. and Britain breaks into the open

Windsor of Discontent (Royalty)
The Princess of Wales blames the press for driving her into seclusion. Is it an act of despair or just more intrigue?

SCIENCE

Meanwhile, Back on Earth . . . (Space)

Rendezvous with Destiny (Space)
A fateful mission begins well as the shuttle reels in the Hubble Telescope

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Catching a Rogue Gene (Medicine)
Two groups independently isolate the hereditary defect responsible for some forms of colon cancer

Dna By Special Delivery (Medicine)

He's the Man with the Too Popular Plan (Health Care)
A Tennessee Congressman ruffles the Administration with a centrist proposal that draws bipartisan support

SOCIETY

An Enemy of Promise (Crime)
A triple killing shocks an elite naval community

Take This Job and Shove It
Apple Computer was coming to Texas -- until local officials got wind of its policy on gay employees.

PRESS

Uncandid Canada
Coverage of a murder trial crosses the border but isn't allowed back

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Escobar's Dead End (Drugs)
Police killed Colombia's most notorious drug baron, but the cocaine trade lives

Spectator the Freedom to Ridicule

The Political Interest Rumblings on the Left

The Presidency Reach Out and Twist an Arm

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BUSINESS

Back on the Fast Track (Cover Business)
After a brutal decade of lost stature and lost profits, American carmakers are really on a roll

Chrysler's Curve Master (Cover Business)

Inside Gm's War Room (Cover Business)

Talking Shop with Detroit's Big Three

Who Needs a Boom? (The Economy)
It's not like the 1980s, but a steady surge is finally cutting unemployment and making wallets a bit fatter

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Bette Comes Up Roses (The Arts & Media Television)
Competing with the memory of that other divine, Ethel Merman, la Midler exuberantly revives the musical Gypsy

Bound By Tradition (The Arts & Media Books)
The Year's outstanding books celebrate past glories of art, architecture and craft

Family Feuds (The Arts & Media Theater)
Frank Gilroy revisits his 1964 hit, The Subject Was Roses

Fifty-Foot Feminist (The Arts & Media Television)
A dated, shlocky sci-fi flick gets a first-rate comic revamp for the Susan Faludi age

Furthermore (The Arts & Media Television)

Heart of Darkness (The Arts & Media Holocaust)
Ghosts in their millions haunt Steven Spielberg's powerful Schindler's List

Honest Abe of Oberammergau (The Arts & Media Theater)
Sam Waterston tries to play dark edges, but Robert Sherwood's once esteemed epic about Lincoln seems mere pageantry today

Masculinity's Last Frontier (The Arts & Media Cinema)
Geronimo turns the story of the great Apache chief into a tract for our times

Sketchy Scam (The Arts & Media Cinema)
John Guare adapts his hit play with mixed results

Songs of an Open Heart (The Arts & Media Music)
Born partly of a breakup, Jackson Browne's album delivers a universal pain

Topping Spielberg's List (The Arts & Media Holocaust)

PEOPLE

President Bill Clinton "That's What Drives Me Nuts" (Interview)

The Dogg Is Unleashed (Interview)
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg has the No. 1 album in America. He's also facing murder charges. In a face-to-face interview, he speaks.

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