Vol. 137 No. 24
NATION
Victory in the gulf may not have achieved all that Americans hoped for, but there are many reasons for glorious -- even giddy -- celebration
American Notes AIDS
Till Death Do Them Part
American Notes BERMUDA TRIANGLE
It's Still the Lost Squadron
American Notes CIVIL RIGHTS
Headed for A Veto?
American Notes EDUCATION
Grade-Point Showdown
Firearms: Chicago's Uphill Battle
As housing officials mop up illegal weapons, the N.R.A. has a novel solution to crime in the projects: more guns
How Many Iraqi Soldiers Died?
Or Maybe We Should All Pray for Rain (Grapevine)
Suddenly, It's Lonelier At the Top (Grapevine)
The White House: In a Sentimental Mood
Newly aware of his mortality, Bush displays a more emotional and introspective side
They're Dancing As Fast As They Can (Grapevine)
This Guy's Beginning to Annoy Me (Grapevine)
Vox Pop (Grapevine)
Watergate Revisited: Notes from Underground
A fresh batch of White House tapes reminds a forgiving and forgetful America why Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace
WORLD
Travel aboard Yeltsin's campaign plane is not all caviar and Pepsi
Cuba:
Moscow's Cheap Date
Czechoslovakia: Confronting a Tankless Task
The good intentions of political leaders to get out of the arms business run into economic reality
Saudi Arabia: Skirmishes Under the Veil
Though life has returned to normal in the kingdom, the religious conservatives and the moderates are stepping up their battle over the country's direction
Soviet Union: Did You Say $250 Billion?
Gorbachev insists he is entitled to aid from the West, but Bush is wary. Reason: he doubts the Soviet leader's commitment to total reform.
World Notes ALGERIA
Another State Of Siege
World Notes FRANCE
Now, the Disarms Race
World Notes POLAND
Sermons from A Native Son
World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
For Sale Or Rent
SCIENCE
The pristine reaches of the Amazon are home to a new kind of adventure that emphasizes studying nature, not gaining thrills
SOCIETY
A family's act of lifesaving conception was on the side of angels, but hovering in the wings is the devilish ghost of Dr. Mengele
For The Sake of Some Umbilical Cells, an Anemic Child Gains Two Sisters (Ethics)
Matchmaker, Find Me a Match (Ethics)
Outwitting the body's defenses, surgeons have become hugely successful at transplants. They could do a lot more, if only there were more organs
Trading Flesh Around the Globe (Ethics)
Two Parents Offer Their Daughter the Breath of Life -- to No Avail (Ethics)
With A Piece of Her Liver, a Mother Saves Her Child from a Slow Death (Ethics)
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 137 No. 24 JUNE 17, 1991
BUSINESS
Fear of Being Home Alone
Business Notes ENTERTAINMENT
Rockers Meet Rollers
Business Notes
LAWSUITS There Goes Another One!
Business Notes
STATE GOVERNMENT A Bureaucrat To the Rescue
Business Notes
WINDFALLS Just Sneaking Ashore
Corporate Finance
A Novel -- and Complex -- Offer Time Warner sparks a Wall Street furor with a debt-paring plan that asks stockholders to pitch in more cash
Money Angles
Amount Due? Zero, Thanks!
The Economy: Crawling Out Of the Slump
The recession may be ending, but some sectors are still hurting, and the recovery may be nothing to cheer about
LAW
New TV shows are invading the courts in search of real-life drama. But will they threaten fair trials in the process?
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Spike Lee's Jungle Fever heads a wave of films that convey the harsh truths of ghetto rage and anguish
Hot Spell in The Cold War (Books)
In From the Wilderness At Last (Cinema)
It's Amazing! Call Now! (Video)
Infomercials are filling the late-night hours with tacky pitches for everything from kitchen tools to baldness cures
New Focus on the Old Guard (Cinema)
Passing The Late-Night Crown (Show Business)
In picking Leno over Letterman for The Tonight Show, NBC goes for youthful drive tempered by jut-jawed likability
Straight Out of the Mean Streets (Cinema)
The $500,000 Firefly (Books)
A fracas over the winner of a lucrative prize illustrates why some literary contests are best left unheld
The Seventh-Inning Stretch (Books)
Even those who prefer watching a line drive to reading a line about baseball will find these volumes worthwhile
PEOPLE
He fingered his Mafia boss to save his own skin. Now Philadelphia hitman NICHOLAS ("The Crow") CARAMANDI tells what it's like to kill one of his best friends.
TO OUR READERS
ESSAY
Saving Nature, But Only for Man