Vol. 134 No. 13
NATION
What do Democrats stand for?
A Skeleton in Barney's Closet
A gay prostitute stretches the limit for sex scandals
American Notes HUD
More Silence From Sam
American Notes KENTUCKY
Another AK-47 Massacre
American Notes SOUTH CAROLINA
Sunken Garden Of Gold
American Notes TEXAS
A Hairy Legal Issue
Big Scam on Campus
A bogus Frenchman gives a course in con
Hope, Not Fear
New York may be the next city to elect a black mayor
Last Gasp for the Everglades
A surprise lawsuit may keep Florida's wetlands from choking on pollution
Vision Problems at State
Critics say James Baker has no consistent policies
WORLD
The Scientist in the Kremlin
Colombia Truce or Consequences?
Unease grows over the wages of the drug war
Coming To America
East Germany: The More Things Change . . .
Greece Out of Office, Into the Dock?
Papandreou is accused in the Koskotas scandal
Refugees The Great Escape
By allowing thousands of East Germans to flee to West Germany, Hungary infuriates its Warsaw Pact ally. But how will the new arrivals fare?
Soviet Union Look Who's Feeling Picked On
Russian minorities become targets for discrimination in some republics, adding ethnic hostility to Gorbachev's many woes
World Notes ESPIONAGE
The Perfect Spy Story
World Notes MIDDLE EAST
Piecemeal Peace
World Notes NAMIBIA
Return of the Warrior
World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
No More Sjamboks
SCIENCE
Exxon's $1 billion cleanup cannot erase the oil spill
SOCIETY
The hometown of the con job may now be the victim of one
Returning Bones of Contention (Ethics)
A bitter debate over spiritual values and scholarly needs
PRESS
A new metropolitan daily is packaged for the video era
SPORT
TECHNOLOGY
An oddball approach to computer science pays off in Japan
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 134 No. 13 SEPTEMBER 25, 1989
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Vol. 134 No. 13 SEPTEMBER 25, 1989
BUSINESS
Richie Rich Finds a Friend
Business Notes COMPUTERS
Have Mac, Will Travel
Business Notes MANAGEMENT
Starting Over In Warsaw
Business Notes STOCKBROKERS
A Ringing In His Ears
Business Notes TYCOONS
Order to Go: One Big Pie
Debt Propelled
The airline-buyout binge raises fears that jet safety will suffer
It's A Small World After All
An ethnic rainbow is brightening ads and fashion runways
Panic in The Junk Pile
The Empire Shrinks Back
Campeau gives up his crown jewel, but will it be enough?
EDUCATION
Sticker Shock at the Ivory Tower
Parents are raging over "Chivas Regal" tuitions, but private colleges are crying poor -
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
At 15, Saturday Night Lives (Video)
The laughs are still coming, but the old gleam is gone
Critics' Voices (Critics' Voices)
Ferocious Parable (Music)
A Weill opera goes Hollywood
In The Dell (Books)
Policeman's Lot (Cinema)
Razor's Edge (Theater)
Imagining Sweeney's world
The Bland Face of State Terror (Cinema)
They Take Their Lumps (Books)
PEOPLE
GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND, the Prime Minister, is a Postmodern Green Neosocialist Philogynic Philosopher-Queen. But just call her Gro