TIME Magazine contents page January 3, 1994 VOL. 143 NO. 1

COVER Men of the Year 32 The Peacemakers The conflicts in the Middle East and South Africa seemed frozen in a no-exit of chronic hatred. Then four men decided to find a way to break out, despite continued rage around them.

Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat: A pair of old warriors choose to follow the fork in the road toward peace -- and history.

Conversations with Rabin and Arafat

Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk: Two men who do not much like each other agree to remake the country they share.

Conversations with Mandela and De Klerk

4 TO OUR READERS

5 LETTERS

17 CHRONICLES

29 MILESTONES

62 THE PRESIDENCY: Blasts from the Past Bill's Nemesis: The college acquaintance who won't forget

THE BEST OF 1993 69 Taking stock of the year's triumphs and flops 70 Cinema: Romance under wraps in old New York 71 Television: Texas cheer, Depression gloom 72 Design: Memorializing the Holocaust, sublimely 74 Environment: Better times for owls, but not for whales 75 Science: Genes mapped, embryos cloned, Hubble rescued 76 Products: 3DO leads the way to the data highway 79 Books: The real J.F.K. and a Danish thriller 83 Theater: A brassy musical about prison torture 85 Music: Three Tonys who are tigers 86 Show Business: Howard and Rush heat up the airwaves 87 Sport: Memorable clashes, on the field and off 88 People: Michael Jackson's age of innocence is over

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