Vol. 136 No. 23
NATION
A scandalous congressional fund-raising system goes on trial along with the Senate's Keating Five
All I Want for Christmas Citation (Grapevine)
America Abroad
The Bum Rap on Bush
American Notes ARIZONA
A Day to Honor A King
American Notes AUCTIONS
Stripped Bare
American Notes COLORADO
Nuclear Confrontation
American Notes MISSOURI
Grandma's Last Roundup
Beep If You Want Him as Veep (Grapevine)
Giving Peace a Chance
A new antiwar movement is mobilizing, but it is not like the one that protested U.S. involvement in Vietnam
Hello, Operator? Get Me Charo (Grapevine)
Here's Your Helmet, What's Your Hurry? (Grapevine)
Horrible Example (Grapevine)
In Miami, Noriega Cries "Foul!"
The imprisoned dictator asks a judge to dismiss his case because the government eavesdropped on his phone calls
On Second Thought... (Grapevine)
On The Road to Baghdad (Grapevine)
Panama Meanwhile, Back in Panama
If the Noriega trial seems like a fiasco, consider the plight of his country one year after the U.S. invasion
Patriotic Marketing Idea of the Week (Grapevine)
Time For Doubt
Bush admits that support for his Persian Gulf policy is ebbing -- largely because he has failed to explain his goals clearly
Where Have All the Flowers Gone Advisory (Grapevine)
Why No Blue Blood Will Flow
On the front lines, a disproportionate number of troops hail from minorities and the working class
WORLD
Britain The Melting of the "Iron Lady"
Win or lose, Thatcher will find her leadership in doubt and her authority weakened as a result of Heseltine's challenge
Europe Nato's Secret Armies
Hundreds joined resistance-movements-in-waiting in the 1950s, and the mystery is why the groups stayed in business so long
No Palestinians Need Apply (Israel)
Unable to stop a surge in violence, Shamir clamps down on workers from the occupied territories
North Korea In the Land of the Single Tune
A visitor to Pyongyang discovers an eerily calm world where radios can pick up only the official station, and the cold war never stopped playing
Saudi Arabia Life in the Slow Lane
By formally banning Saudi women from driving cars, conservatives hope to brake any further efforts at liberalization
Soviet Union Depths of Gloom
As talk of shortages gives way to fear of famine, even Gorbachev and Yeltsin united together may not be able to save the country
World Notes FRANCE
Back into The Streets
World Notes JAPAN
Like Father, Unlike Son
World Notes NEW ZEALAND
Firing at Sundown
World Notes PAKISTAN
Accidental Justice
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Scientists are battling high blood sugar, the overlooked affliction that strikes millions
The Dangers of Foul Fowl (Food)
As poultry's popularity grows, the scourge of salmonella spreads
The Sins of the Fathers (Medicine)
Both parents may be vulnerable to toxins that cause birth defects
SOCIETY
Researchers link hyperactivity to an abnormality in the brain
TECHNOLOGY
Science is giving industry a versatile array of new building blocks
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Revisionists see Christopher Columbus as a precursor of ecological despoliation and Indian genocide
Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 136, No. 23 NOVEMBER 26, 1990
Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 136, No. 23 NOVEMBER 26, 1990
BUSINESS
In Deep Water But Afloat
Business Notes FAST FOOD
McDonald's Holds the Fat
Business Notes MARKETING
From One Joint To Another
Business Notes SOVIET UNION
A Big Board For Moscow
Contents Require Immediate Attention
Read This!!!!!!!!
Some call it direct mail, others know it as junk, but Americans love the paper flood washing over them as much as they say they hate it
Freedom: Not Just Another Bank
The big squeeze hits minority-owned financial institutions hardest
Homeless, But Still Flying
Kuwait Airways soldiers on
Money Angles
Give Greed Another Chance
Too Many Busy Signals
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A look at Albert Pinkham Ryder's myth -- and its limits
Critics' Voices (Critics' Voices)
Death Comes With Dessert (Books)
Sailing Through the Storms (Theater)
James Clavell's troubled musical Shogun arrives on Broadway
The Long Way Round to Home (Music)
With La Bamba behind them, Los Lobos recover their roots
The Man with the Golden Ear (Books)
George V. Higgins thrives on the precept that talk is plot
The Way We Were (Cinema)
PEOPLE
NGUYEN VAN THIEU, South Vietnam's former President, still believes the Hanoi regime will fall and that he will be able to go home again
Reforming Our Image Of a Chief (Profile)
ELIZABETH WATSON did not start out as a feminist pioneer, but Houston's new top cop is stubbornly working for change