Vol. 132 No. 5
NATION
His legal problems are over, but his ethics remain questionable
American Notes CITIES
You'll Love It Here
American Notes LOS ANGELES
Royal Flush for A Full House
American Notes PARKS
Donald Hodel's Turf Battle
American Notes PORNOGRAPHY
Get Off the Telephone
American Notes THE WEST
Summer Of Fire
The Democrats "Jesse Has No Equals"
The Democrats "Your Record Is Not Reassuring"
In an open letter, a former Secretary of Defense questions Dukakis' grasp of national security
The Democrats Reaching Common Ground
How Dukakis managed to assert that two's a ticket and three's a crowd
The Democrats
The Best and Brightest, the Worst and Dimmest
The Democrats The Duke Of Unity
When the pressure was on to prove he could excite as well as manage his party, Dukakis found strength in a new theme: community
The Democrats True-Life Tales from the Omni
Pamela takes it off, Tipper gets radical, and Mario claims the car
The Democrats
What Jackson Got
The Libyan Travel Bureau
Oliver North was its target -- but then maybe not
WORLD
Ne Win offers to resign, but there are doubts that he means it
Central America A Few Minutes Before Noon
A new contra leadership may trigger fresh battles with Managua
Ethiopia Eritrea: A Crucible of Misery
Famine relief sputters as the Mengistu government struggles to regain control of the north
Oil: Win, Lose or Draw?
The Gulf On the Brink of Peace
Iran's abrupt acceptance of a cease-fire may end its bloody eight-year war with Iraq
Unhappy Birthday
World Notes EGYPT
The Big Breakout
World Notes ITALY
Hard News To Swallow
World Notes MIDDLE EAST
Turning Up The Heat
World Notes SOVIET UNION
Enough Is Enough
World Notes ZIMBABWE
Do You Know Me?
SCIENCE
Threatened by rising pollution, the oceans are sending out an SOS
SOCIETY
PRESS
Two newspapers are found guilty of revealing a source
STYLE & DESIGN
By going indoors, city dwellers escape the city
TECHNOLOGY
The new simulators re-create reality -- and fantasy -- with gut-wrenching accuracy
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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BUSINESS
Owning a minor-league baseball club has become a grand-slam investment
Business Notes LITIGATION (Economy & Business)
Dueling Trademarks
Business Notes MARKETING (Economy & Business)
Now Call It Yupperware
Business Notes REGULATION (Economy & Business)
Stay Tuned for Dial-a-Movie
Business Notes TAKEOVERS (Economy & Business)
Disney Enters The Picture
Invasion of The Gold Coast (Economy & Business)
A mammoth inflow of Japanese money alarms Australians
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck (Economy & Business)
Would raising the minimum wage help or hurt the working poor?
LAW
They're Playing Up to the Jury
Lawyers are turning to actors to polish their court performances
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
by Robert Hutchison Morrow; 288 pages; $19.95
Do Conventions Turn Off the Public? (Video)
Some TV news executives think so, and Atlanta may mark the end of an era
Dynamo on The Floor (Video)
Glimpses Of An Unsexy Tortoise (Art)
A new Braque show offers too little of a great thing
Reimagining Death in Dallas LIBRA (Books)
by Don DeLillo; Viking; 458 pages; $19.95
The Opera As Science Fiction (Music)
Philip Glass turns to psychodrama, part Freud, part Kafka
The Prince of Prepuberty Grows Up BIG TOP PEE-WEE (Cinema)
Directed by Randal Kleiser Screenplay by Paul Reubens and George McGrath