Time Contents November 28, 1994 --

TO OUR READERS 4

LETTERS 10

CHRONICLES 19

MILESTONES 27

GOVERNMENT: After the Revolution 28

As the G.O.P. gets ready to rule, Clinton gropes for a strategy

Gingrich's Armey: A tough-talking Texan rises to the top 30

Politics: The latest G.O.P. buzz word 32

THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Who Will Lead the Minority? 34

Senate Democrats must decide how close to stand with Clinton

IMMIGRATION: Closing Down the Border 35

U.S. authorities block more illegal crossings -- but at what cost?

Proposition 187: Californians take matters into their hands

36

THE ECONOMY: Rates of Wrath 38

The Fed raises borrowing costs and makes next to no one happy

BUSINESS: Many Dreams, Many Losses 42

Does Japan Inc. equal bad management? Sometimes

ON THE MONEY: Bear in the China Shop 45

Investigate before you invest in a Chinese company

MIDDLE EAST: Gaza Flares 46

A violent blowup between Arafat and Hamas

BOSNIA: A War of Their Own 48

As the fighting escalates, the peacemakers quarrel

BOOK EXCERPT: Long Walk to Freedom 52

From his autobiography, Nelson Mandela's prison years

BEHAVIOR: Early-Warning System 65

New tests for suicide, schizophrenia and other disorders

Prozac: Depression drug on trial 66

MEDICINE: Cracking Down on Cholesterol 67

A new study may change the way heart disease is treated

SCIENCE: DNA from Dinosaurs? 67

Scraps of ancient genes turn up in 80-million-year-old bones

SOCIETY: Au Pairs Without Tears 68

The U.S. takes a hard look at the foreign babysitter trade

COVER: Boldly Going and Going and Going 72

Star Trek began life as a campy, unpopular TV show in the late

1960s. So how did it become the most varied and enduring pop

phenomenon of our time?

Captain: Producer Rick Berman is now the Master Trekkie

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Cinema: Two Santa Claus movies are just seasonal slush. In the

endearing Junior, Schwarzenegger gets pregnant 80

Theater: Sunset Boulevard arrives at last on Broadway. Sam

Shepard's Simpatico occupies very arid territory 82

Music: Turbulent Indigo finds Joni Mitchell steeped in blue.

Robbie Robertson pays homage to Native Americans 83

Books: Speed Tribes describes Japan's decadent demimonde.

Novelist J.M. Coetzee adapts Dostoyevsky's life -- too freely

87

The lives of basketballers soar and fall in The Last Shot 91

Opera: The next great tenor isn't a tenor -- he's a baritone

93

PEOPLE 95

ESSAY 96