Vol. 144 No. 1

NATION

Chronicles (Chronicles)

Fin-De-Siecle Alert (Chronicles)

Hall Monitor of the Week (Chronicles)

Health Report (Chronicles)

Informed Sources (Chronicles)

Inside Washington (Chronicles)
The U.S. Keeps an Eye on Its Friends

Million-Dollar Bill (Politics)
He promised to shun the fat cats, but now Clinton keeps the cash flowing into Democratic war chests

More Negativism: Elocution Down (Chronicles)

Nobody's Calling It a Boondoggle Now (Chronicles)

Puff the Magic Bureaucrat! (Chronicles)

The Morning Line (Chronicles)

The Week June 19-25 (Chronicles)

Top 10 (Chronicles)
Sponsors of Congressional Junkets

Winners & Losers (Chronicles)

WORLD

As The Plutonium Cools (Diplomacy)
After a visit from Carter, Kim Il Sung promises to freeze his bomb program, and the U.S. agrees to talks

City On Edge (Russia)
Mired in squalor, awash in glitz, Moscow struggles to find a sense of itself

The Narco-Candidate? (Colombia)
A newly elected President is hit with charges that Cali drug lords helped finance his campaign

Tightening The Screws (Haiti)
The U.S. cuts commercial air links and sows seeds of distrust among the military leadership

SCIENCE

The Backyard Besieged (Environment)
Environmentalists and regulators want to stifle that suburban icon, the noisy, air-fouling lawn mower

The Wine Portfolio (Agriculture)
Beset by sagging sales, the government and a new bug, California's vintners try to promote their wares

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Is This the Last Best Hope? (Health Care)
A clutch of Senators comes up with a plan that falls far short of Clinton's dreams, but it may be passable

Moms, Kids and AIDS (Medicine)
Can testing and treatment before and after birth help thousands of youngsters threatened by HIV?

SOCIETY

Killing The Psychic Pain (Ethics)
A Dutch court says doctors can assist suicides of depressed but physically healthy patients

When Violence Hits Home (Behavior)
Suddenly, domestic abuse, once perniciously silent, is exposed for its brutality in the wake of a highly public scandal

SPORT

Hot Seat at Wimbledon: Judge, Jury and Shrink
The players make all the big money, but umpires like Sultan Gangji make the final calls

The Boys of Soccer (World Cup)
The U.S. surprised a sturdy Colombian squad. But can the Dream Team continue its upstart upsets?

TECHNOLOGY

Bards Of the Internet
If E-mail represents the renaissance of prose, why is so much of it so awful?

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

On the Money
How a Falling Dollar Hurts Us

Public Eye the Victim, You Say?

Time Contents Page (Contents)
July 4, 1994 -- Vol. 144 No. 1

Time Masthead (Masthead)
July 4, 1994 -- Vol. 144, No. 1

BUSINESS

Black Gold Rush ;
One of history's great oil scrambles is under way as new fields open up abroad

LAW

Playing to the Crowd (Justice)
Lawyers do battle over O.J. and sympathy as the scandal of the year enters the courts

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Baby Dali (Arts & Media / ART)
An exhibit shows that the young Salvador Dali thought he could do anything, and he almost could

Forward into The Past (Arts & Media / MUSIC)
David Byrne creates a new sound out of all his old ones

Gag Orders (Arts & Media / THEATER)
Paul Rudnick's The Naked Truth is just a joke machine

Havin' Herself a Time (Arts & Media / MUSIC)
At (yes!) 76, Lena Horne returns with a stunning new album

Jovial Julia Roberts has an ideal role in a bland caper with Nick Nolte (Arts & Media / CINEMA)

Lotus Land No More (Arts & Media / BOOKS)
A writer travels around California, where he lived in 1969, and finds much altered

Party's Over (Arts & Media / MUSIC)
The Beastie Boys aren't as much fun as they used to be

Shoot-Out At the Zz (Arts & Media / CINEMA)
Corral Wyatt Earp is a soporific ride on an endless trail to nowhere

Substandard-Bearer (Arts & Media / BOOKS)
The first of a three-volume lexicon of U.S. slang is a killer

The Dreamy Impresario (Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Lincoln Kirstein recounts his gilded youth and the path that led him to George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet

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