Time Contents Page April 18, 1994 Vol. 143 No. 16

TO OUR READERS 4

CHRONICLES 19

THE ECONOMY: What Made Alan Greenspan Do It? 30

The stock slide forces the Fed chairman to face more questions

SUPREME COURT: One Steps Down. Who Steps Up? 35

The President wants a nominee to breeze though the Senate

ARMED FORCES: Academies, Who Needs 'Em? 37

It's hard times for military schools

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Chicago's Extraordinary Methods 38

In public housing, tenants back no-warrant searches for guns

THE ADMINISTRATION: The Health-Care Revival Hour 39

Bill and Hillary take their show on the road, with good results

POLITICS: The Haunted Candidates 40

Things are getting strange in Virginia's Senate contest

MIDDLE EAST: Peace Postponed in Gaza 42

It will take a miracle to meet the deadline for Israeli withdrawal

Interview: Jordan's Hussein talks about the peace negotiations

CENTRAL AFRICA: Rwanda Descends into Chaos 44

Violence claims the lives of two Presidents and thousands

JAPAN: Fall of a Reformer 45

Hosokawa resigns, leaving a government in search of a leader

GUATEMALA: Americans Attacked 48

Anti-foreigner fever leads to accusations of baby snatching

AVIATION: Flying Russian Roulette 50

Once just a bad joke, Aeroflot's service turns deadly

ARMS TRADE: Russia's National Yard Sale 52

With the old empire shutting down, there are bargains aplenty

COVER: Smoking's Last Gasp? 58

Tough new laws are on the books; offices and restaurants are

banishing smokers; even ball parks are turning into smoke-free

zones. How far can the crusade go?

PRESS: The New Men Leading the New York Times 66

A slow-spoken Southerner returns to the paper of record

MEDICINE: The AIDS Virus' Other Trick 67

Besides damaging the immune system, it may trigger cancer

SCIENCE: Bodies from the 17th Century 67

Forensics experts prove how tough life was in Colonial America

HEALTH: Babies at Risk 68

How America neglects its youngest -- and most vulnerable -- kids

ENVIRONMENT: Defending the Tiger 68

The White House is set to slap trade sanctions on Taiwan

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Music: Grunge poet Kurt Cobain takes his life at 27 70

Cinema: History as soap opera in the House of Spirits; Glenn Gould as genius eccentric; more depravity from John Waters 73

Books: The Alienist is an exceptional thriller; Janet Malcolm mines the Plath myth; Louis Begley's As Max Saw It is perfectly constructed 77

History: America and the Holocaust 83

PEOPLE 85

ESSAY 86