Vol. 133 No. 12

NATION

American Notes BOSTON
"I Am an Alcoholic"

American Notes DENVER
Gun Control at The Altar

American Notes HAWAII
Lindbergh's Uneasy Rest

American Notes VIRGINIA
An "Ill Wind" Picks Up Speed

Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary (American Ideas)
A Swamp Makes Waste To Be Sweet Again Professors Allen and Gearheart design a wetlands as a natural sewage-treatment plant

Bombs Across the Ocean?
An explosion in San Diego suggests Iranian retaliation

On The Second Shot, a Straight Arrow

Rude Awakening
For all his experience and energy, the President is stumbling as his free-lance style leads to government by "ad-hocracy"

Saying No to Lee Atwater
Howard students derail the G.O.P. campaign for black support

Spying And Sabotage by Computer
The U.S. and its adversaries are tapping data bases -- and spreading viruses

The Re-Greening of America
A new wave of Irish immigrants is showing its muscle

WORLD

America Abroad
Real Weapons, High Hopes

East-West Let's Count Down
The superpowers want to shrink conventional arms, but don't agree how

El Salvador Revolt Under the Coconut Palms
F.M.L.N. rebels prepare for their boldest assault since1981

Greece "No Mud Touches Me"
After allegations he took payoffs, Papandreou fights back

Hostages The Lost Life Of Terry Anderson
The American journalist is beginning his fifth year in captivity somewhere in the bowels of Beirut, a coin for a cruel human barter that no one has been able to redeem

Poland Out of the Political Desert
The opposition gains leverage

The Man Who Holds the Hostages

World Notes AFGHANISTAN
Stalled at the Gates of Glory

World Notes EGYPT
Odious Transactions

World Notes SOVIET UNION
Glasnost's Better Half?

World Notes TIBET
Chafing Under The Yoke

SCIENCE

The Gene Hunt
Scientists launch a $3 billion project to map the chromosomes and decipher the complete instructions for making a human being

The Perils of Treading on Heredity
Uncontrolled tampering with DNA could stir up a host of ethical dilemmas

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Snuffed Sniffles (Medicine)
Is a cold remedy in sight?

When Less May Be More (Medicine)
A heart study finds drugs as effective as invasive methods

SOCIETY

Fashion Without Frontiers (Living)
Two top Italian designers defect to France

RELIGION

Evangelism And All That Jazz
Take 6 puts Seventh-day Adventism on the charts

SPORT

Dreaming The Big Dreams
One-handed Jim Abbott shines at spring training

STYLE & DESIGN

A Dreamer Who Is Fuzzy About the Details (Design)
With a new show at MOMA, Steven Holl's influence grows

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

A Letter From the Editor-In-chief:

Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page Vol. 133 No. 12 MARCH 20, 1989

Time (Masthead)
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BUSINESS

A Deal Heard Round the World
Faced with growing global competition in the information and entertainment industries, Time and Warner join forces to form a communications giant

Business Notes JAPAN
The Scandal Will Not Die

Business Notes PRODUCTS
What's in A Name?

Business Notes PROMOTIONS
Rockin', Rollin' And Dialin'

Business Notes SOFTWARE
A $175 Million Bottleneck

Eastern Goes Bust
Crippled by a walkout, Lorenzo throws the airline into bankruptcy

Enter The Brady Plan
Washington unveils a new program to ease Third World debt

EDUCATION

Black by Popular Demand
African-American colleges enjoy a welcome renaissance

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Fable for Postmoderns (Cinema)

A Nightmare Without Force (Theater)

Critics' Choice (Critics' Choice)

Fatal Schism (Books)

Funky Funk (Cinema)

Long Haul (Books)

My Father the Communist (Books)

Putting A Brake on TV "Sleaze" (Video)
Advertisers are growing wary of shows that might offend

Way Stations (Theater)

PEOPLE

One Bear Of a Soviet Politician (Interview)
Bumped from power by conservatives, BORIS YELTSIN is campaigning hard to avenge that "mugging" and improve on Gorbachev's reforms