Vol. 132 No. 15
NATION
American Notes CALIFORNIA
Unclogging L.A.'s Arteries
American Notes NEW YORK
Tearing Apart Tawana's Tale
American Notes NIAGARA FALLS Welcome Back To Love Canal
American Notes THE GULF
Going to a Zone Defense
American Notes WASHINGTON
The Patchwork Memorial
Are You Better Off?
For much of the middle class, the answer is no -- yet it isn't hurting Bush
Campaign Issues
The Underclass: Breaking the Cycle
Congeniality Wins
In a TIME poll, Dukakis takes the debate but Bush stays ahead
How One California Family Has Been Caught in the Middle
A tale of children who may never do as well as their parents
Spotlight on the A.c.l.u.
It defends Nazis and gays, Ollie North and Jehovah's Witnesses
The Presidency
It Takes Some Getting Used To
The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid
Quayle His Task Is to Save Himself
The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid Bentsen
His Job Is to Capture Texas
WORLD
Reform's price: a Moscow shake-up and a Beijing slowdown
Haiti The General vs. the Colonel
A new regime moves to crack down on the thriving drug trade
Middle East Plastic, but Deadly Palestinian casualties surge
Prizes Sorry, Ron And Mikhail
A Nobel for U.N. peacekeepers
Viet Nam The Wound That Will Not Heal
Why Washington and Hanoi refuse to let the MIA issue die
Winners And Losers
World Notes MIDDLE EAST
Treacherous Shoreline
World Notes PAKISTAN
Massacre in Hyderabad
World Notes
POLAND No Olive Branch
World Notes ROMANCE
Remembrance Of Loves Past
World Notes SPAIN
Nailing Down The Bases
SCIENCE
The Magic Is Back! (Space)
On a thundering pillar of fire, Discovery carries the nation's hopes aloft again
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Birth Control Abortion pills, approved abroad, are doubtful for the U.S.
SOCIETY
A new show pays tribute to an intrepid designer
In Texas: Going for the "Bird" (American Scene)
Older Parents: Good for Kids? (Behavior)
Lateborns find fault, but there are advantages
STYLE & DESIGN
Union Station in Washington is gloriously restored
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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BUSINESS
Well-Squeezed Lemons
Business Notes BEVERAGES (Economy & Business)
A Beer with a Mouse Chaser
Business Notes PRODUCTS (Economy & Business)
Advance To Arbat
Business Notes TAXES (Economy & Business)
Baby Bashing At the IRS
Business Notes TELEVISION (Economy & Business)
And Now, the Soybean Hour
Forgive Us Our Debts (Economy & Business)
A consensus emerges in favor of easing the developing nations' trillion-dollar burden
Jet-Propelled Gooney Birds (Economy & Business)
The Shopping-Cart Raiders (Economy & Business)
Big retailers are profitable targets for the Hafts
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Late Night With Alex And Dima (Video)
Glasnost hits Soviet TV, and viewers are riveted
Piercing The Privacy Veil (Video)
The King Is Dead -- or Is He? (Show Business)
The Elvis cult has the makings of a rising new religion
SPECIAL SECTION
An Athlete Dying Young
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and som
Illusions Lost and Regained
Shame Of the Games
Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold in the Olympics' worst drug scandal