Vol. 137 No. 21
NATION
American Notes
AGRICULTURE The Red Tape Made Me Do It
And P.S.: Don't Knock Gorbachev (Grapevine)
Cancel Our Reservations (Grapevine)
Currency Foiling the Fakers
Does Affirmative Action Help or Hurt?
Black conservatives say their people become addicted to racial preferences instead of hard work
Dreaming of The Wild Blue Yonder (Grapevine)
It's Hard to Be Perfectly P.C. (Grapevine)
Law Enforcement
Crimes of The Heart
Quota Quagmire
While racial tensions are rising in the country, Washington politicians are bogged down in a rancorous dispute over a new civil rights bill
Speak Softly and Carry A Big Hatchet
Faced with a fiscal crisis, Dinkins attacks New York City's $3.5 billion shortfall with a draconian slash-and-tax budget, but his rebellious council has other ideas
Supreme Court
48 Hours On Ice
Syria's Footloose Black Sheep (Grapevine)
The Bureaucrat Has No Clothes . . . (Grapevine)
The Gulf War
Off the Hook?
Vox Pop (Grapevine)
When In Doubt, Obfuscate
Ted Kennedy's handling of the Palm Beach rape case echoes an old pattern of recklessness, evasion and irresponsibility
WORLD
Making Their Voices Heard
Disasters: There Must Be a Better Way
With famine, floods and refugees demanding attention, providers of emergency aid think the time is ripe for change
Ethiopia: Uncle Sam Steps In
As the Mengistu regime verges on collapse, the U.S. tries to avert a slaughter by brokering peace among the competing factions
France
Mitterrand's Iron Lady
Middle East: On the Bridge To Nowhere
Why the U.S. is having so much trouble bringing Arabs and Israelis to the negotiating table
Poland
An Abortion Bill Aborts
South Africa: Lay Down The Spears!
Despite De Klerk's progress in chipping away apartheid, violence among blacks threatens further reform
The Mandelas: True and Loyal
The Political Interest
Baker's Real Agenda: 1992
World Notes
YUGOSLAVIA Dangerous Muddle
SCIENCE
The Kuwaiti oil-fire fallout could be worse than expected: it may affect hundreds of millions of people from Africa to the Indian subcontinent
HEALTH & MEDICINE
America's most influential school for chefs has big plans to expand its empire
The Watchdog Wakes Up (Health)
Food companies can forget the days of anything-goes regulators. A new FDA commissioner is cracking down on deceptive labels.
SOCIETY
Orlando, the boomtown of the South, is growing on the model of Disney World: a community that imitates an imitation of a community
Wallingford, Connecticut Calypso Rocks A New England Village (American Scene)
South Bronx students bring steel drums, Caribbean rhythms and cultural diversity to a button-down Connecticut boarding school
PRESS
Filling a niche in metropolitan markets, local 24-hour news channels are sprouting across the country on cable $
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BUSINESS
COMPUTERS The Numbers Didn't Add Up
Business Notes
ELECTRONICS Stop Us Before We Buy Again!
Business Notes
FINANCE Icahn Empties A Piggy Bank
Business Notes
TRADE Bridging the Rio Grande
Come On Down! Fast!
With the economy moribund, cities and states are in a feverish free-for-all to lure employers their way
The Banks Are in Hotel Hell
The next hostelry you stay at could be run by a lender that never really wanted to own one but can't find a way to dump it
The Bruising Battle Abroad
EDUCATION
Yes, with less money, more selectiveness and rigor, they produce better students -- and now want to sell that fact
LAW
A boy's anguish at watching the murder of his sister may change the death-penalty laws
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
THELMA & LOUISE Directed by Ridley Scott
Death In Poland (Books)
WARTIME LIES by Louis Begley
Imagining Men (Books)
THE FIREMAN'S FAIR by Josephine Humphreys
Mean Season (Cinema)
WHAT ABOUT BOB? Directed by Frank Oz
Not For Men Only (Music)
Women rappers are breaking the mold with a message of their own
Washington's Other Monument (Books)
COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT by Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke
SPECIAL SECTION
An old Bermuda Triangle mystery may be solved
PEOPLE
Bland-looking and hard-hitting, BOB GATES is the President's pick to lead the CIA beyond its cold-war roots into an uncertain future
TO OUR READERS
ESSAY
Hail Columbus, Dead White Male