Vol. 135 No. 6
NATION
A $648,000 Typist
American Notes ILLINOIS
A Crash Course In Drug Testing
American Notes NEW YORK
Home, Toward Disaster
American Notes THE CENSUS
They Count By Night
Building a "Big Tent" Around Abortion
China Breach
Congress sets the tone for an election year with a bruising -- and losing -- challenge to the President's foreign policy. So much for bipartisanship
Highly Public Prosecutors
In Miami and Washington, big cases mean big headlines
Run, Barry, Run
While Washington's indicted mayor takes a cure in Florida, who inherits the mess he left behind?
Thanks, But No Tanks
Now that the Berlin Wall is open, the U.S. Army plays war a little differently
The Presidency
Totaling Up Year One
WORLD
Cautious Architect of a Cloudy Future
Faced with the challenge of bringing racial harmony to his country, State President F.W. de Klerk seeks a middle path that will satisfy blacks without alienating whites
At the Crossroads
Nelson Mandela may soon be free, but is South Africa ready -- or able -- to take the road to a nonracial democratic society?
Eyewitness To Hatred
Fresh from the heart of the conflict, a Soviet official tells how both sides try to exterminate each other
Haiti Deja Vu, All Over Again
Avril's crackdown brings back the bad old days
Sanctions: What Spells Success?
South Asia Slaughter Up North
Violence in Kashmir pits India against Pakistan
Soviet Union Occupational Disease
As Azerbaijan threatens to turn into another Afghanistan, Gorbachev discovers that the price of suppression may be his cherished reforms
World Notes EAST GERMANY
New Leash On Life
World Notes HISTORY
The End Of the Affair
World Notes HONG KONG
Whittling Down Democracy
World Notes SOUTH KOREA
Roh Clears Up The Confusion
SCIENCE
A late space program takes off -- and bears watching
Promotion to The Highest Level (Environment)
The pollution fighters will gain the clout of Cabinet status
HEALTH & MEDICINE
But Avoid Fat Foodmakers try to take some of the worry out of eating treats
PRESS
The National gambles on insatiable -- and literate -- fans
SPORT
An interview with a grilled snapper, and other wonderments
TECHNOLOGY
The President's plane is well guarded by electronic gear
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 135, No. 6 FEBRUARY 5, 1990
BUSINESS
Rising global interest rates spook Wall Street and squeeze the U.S. economy
Business Notes ACCIDENTS
Haunted by A Gas Cloud
Business Notes REAL ESTATE
Will a Needle Take the Title?
Business Notes RESEARCH
Chips Across The Atlantic
Business Notes SEAFOOD
Vacations for Crustaceans?
Business Notes TOURISM
( Club Med It Isn't
Mad Dog's Tales
Moscow's Big Mak Attack
The golden arches rise over Pushkin Square
Who Wants to Wait for HDTV?
Viewers are building home theaters from the latest gear at hand
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Dimming Shakespeare's Glories (Theater)
Briton Kenneth Branagh bows in Los Angeles, with mixed results
Gotcha! (Books)
Rushes (Cinema)
The San Francisco Rebellion (Art)
An exhibit shows how young artists rejected a whole ethos
The Tax Collector Gets Audited (Books)
Too Blue (Books)
Yo! Rap Gets on the Map (Music)
Led by groups like Public Enemy, it socks a black message to the mainstream
PEOPLE
AIDS activist, and now victim LARRY KRAMER blasts away at the Government, the medical establishment and the Catholic Church