Vol. 137 No. 13

NATION

American Notes
CRIME: Death on the Home Front

American Notes
POLLUTION: Now They Tell Us!

American Notes
TRIALS: Be It Ever So Humble . . .

American Notes
WEATHER: California Streamin'

Back to The Beat
As an antidote to police abuses and street crime, many cities are sending cops into communities to protect, serve -- and often befriend -- local residents

Rough Justice
After the outrage in Los Angeles, police find themselves on trial as Americans are worried that some officers may be going too far -- much too far -- in the midst of a brutal and brutalizing war

GRAPEVINE (Grapevine)
Here Come the Cubans, Part 2

GRAPEVINE (Grapevine)
It's Just Not Genteel to Spit

Law And Disorder
For cops, fear and frustration are constants. Sometimes even the best of them snap under the pressure.

Murders They Wrote
Passion, envy and genius combine in a trio of true-life crime dramas that seem ready-made for TV

GRAPEVINE (Grapevine)
Stop Us Before We Vote Again

The Common Man's Tax Cut
Rebuffed last fall, Moynihan revives his plan to reduce Social Security levies for middle- and lower-wage earners

GRAPEVINE (Grapevine)
The Drug Dog All-Star Squad

GRAPEVINE (Grapevine)
The G.O.P. Hit List

The Political Interest Gates: The Buck Doesn't Stop Here

GRAPEVINE (Grapevine)
There's No Place Like Jail

GRAPEVINE (Grapevine)
White House To IRS: Hands Off The Rich

WORLD

Britain Trimming Around the Edges
Major kills Thatcher's poll tax and changes the tone of policy, but her philosophy goes marching on

Foreign Aid: Good Intentions, Woeful Results
How an ambitious environmental program ended up damaging the tropical rain forests

In From The Cold

Iraq Getting Their Way
The Kurdish revolt shakes Saddam, contributing to his decision to form a new Cabinet, and raises the question, Does the country face a breakup?

Middle East: Does Land Still Buy Security?
A debate rages on whether Israel could safely return even a demilitarized Golan Heights to Syria

Military Strategy: How Moscow and Beijing Lost the War
The allied victory is a sobering lesson for the world's two largest armies. It may be a prohibitively costly one.

Soviet Union Gorbachev's Nightmare
What if Boris Yeltsin becomes the first elected president of the Russia republic, the biggest and wealthiest of them all?

SCIENCE

Mexico City's Menacing Air (Environment)
The shutdown of a refinery will only begin to curb a toxic cloud

Thin Skins and Fraud at M.I.T.
A famed researcher backs away from a discredited paper

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Forging A Shield Against AIDS (Medicine)
Vaccines are in the works, but how should they be tested and who should pay?

PRESS

A Fresh Take on Fashion
Mirabella woos readers with an eclectic menu of offerings that mixes culture and business with women's other concerns

SPORT

Bo Knows Pain -- and Dismissal
The best-known two-sport athlete in the U.S. is out for a year, and perhaps forever, because of a football injury

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Academics In Opposition (Ideas)

Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 137, No. 13 APRIL 1, 1991

Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 137, No. 13 APRIL 1, 1991

Upside Down in the Groves of Academe (Ideas)
In U.S. classrooms, battles are flaring over values that are almost a reverse image of the American mainstream. As a result, a new intolerance is on the rise.

BUSINESS

Business Notes
AIRCRAFT: The Buddy System

Business Notes
COMPETITIVENESS: Can This War Be Won?

Business Notes
GAMBLING: A Tale of Two Cities

Business Notes
LITIGATION: Victory for A Video Voice

Business Notes
WALL STREET: A Bad Case Of the Blues

Masters Of Deceit
How the men behind an audacious bank expanded it via global duplicity, touching Jimmy Carter, Arab sheiks and Manuel Noriega along the way

Piercing The Scam's Heart

LAW

Weighing Some Heavy Metal
The Supreme Court rules that potential health risks to a fetus are no excuse to discriminate against women in the workplace

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Art And Terror in the Same Boat (Music)
The Death of Klinghoffer avoids politics but takes no prisoners

Critics' Voices (Critics' Voices)

Hollywood Dances with Words (Show Business)
Books are coming off the shelves and onto the screen. Are producers seeking more complexity, or just tidy packages?

Revenge of The Nerd (Video)
Neighborhood pest Steve Urkel makes Family Matters fly and gives the Miller-Boyett team yet another comedy hit

TO OUR READERS

From the Publisher (From The Publisher)

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ESSAY
A Moment for the Dead