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COVER: The abortion battle approaches a climax, and the nation embarks on a collision course with itself
The Supreme Court this week hears a case that could weaken or reverse its controversial Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. That prospect has jolted pro-choice forces into action. Meanwhile, Operation Rescue has become the spearhead of the militant pro-life movement. Garry Wills describes the new antiabortion shock troops and their leader, Randall Terry.
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WORLD: In Beijing and beyond, mourning for an ousted Chinese leader turns into a defiant demand for change
But how far will the authorities go in clamping down on the demonstrators? -- As Soviet tanks prepare to move out of Eastern Europe, NATO decides not to decide on revamping its arsenal. -- Should the U.S. bail out Poland's Communists? -- France's bicentennial hoopla extols the glories of the French Revolution -- but battle lines drawn in 1789 still have not disappeared.
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BUSINESS: A huge hoard of real estate will burden the Government as it carries out the savings and loan bailout
As federal regulators liquidate everything from condominiums to gravel pits, they must move carefully to avoid triggering a plunge in property values. -- Despite a rising Dow, Wall Street faces more layoffs and falling profits. -- Control Data pulls out of the supercomputer market, leaving Cray Research as the sole U.S. firm to compete against rival Japanese manufacturers.
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NATION: The odds lengthen against Speaker Jim Wright
A unanimous bipartisan ethics committee report proves devastating. -- The U.S.S. Iowa explosion renews debate about the usefulness -- if any -- of battleships.
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SCIENCE: A fast-moving asteroid just misses earth
The celestial intruder was nearly half a million miles away, but considering the devastation a direct hit could have caused, the flyby was too close for comfort.
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INTERVIEW: An uncompromising filmmaker
David Puttnam bemoans the decline of the cinema and criticizes the bloated moviemakers, actors and agents who are responsible for its undeserved fall from grace.
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TECHNOLOGY: Through the 3-D looking glass
Powerful computers that can create sharp animated images are winning Oscars, designing sneakers and fabricating artificial worlds that viewers can explore.
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BOOKS: From The Color Purple to black and white
Alice Walker's new novel about racial and sexual hostilities is more effective as propaganda than as fiction.
-- A wave of writing on the Chinese experience.
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ART: A new look at a vigorous, vulgar American original
Thomas Hart Benton is admirable for his cussedness and independence, but these qualities are no guarantee of good painting, as a 100th-anniversary show in Kansas City proves. Benton's stylized regionalist scenes, writhing with down- home figures in buckskins and gingham, are caricatured and pumped and tarted up until the eye wants to cry uncle.
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ESSAY: Reflections on 28 flavors of nostalgia
, Whatever happened to those tangy Howard Johnson's hot dogs and the crunchy ice-cream cones? You can still find them if you look.
8 Letters
12 American Ideas
15 Critics' Choice
61 Video
66 Medicine
68 Cinema
74 Music
75 Behavior
75 Milestones
76 People
79 Living
Cover: Illustration by Mirko Ilic