Time Magazine Contents Page February 22, 1993 Volume 141 No. 8

THE WEEK 14

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COVER: Summoning Sacrifice

Sketching the specter of an open-ended American economic decline, the new President prepares to call on Americans to accept higher taxes and less generous government benefits to reduce the federal deficit

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LAW ENFORCEMENT: Mutiny at the Bureau

An embattled FBI chief fights to keep his job

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LAW: Nannygate Hits Home

Even outside Washington, families wrestle with a messy law

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HEALTH: Opening U.S. Borders to AIDS

Should infected foreigners be allowed to enter the U.S.?

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THE BALKANS: Getting with the Program

The U.S. finally takes on Balkan peacemaking

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BEHAVIOR: Rape and War

Bosnia opens a terrible new wound

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CANADA: Despair Among the Innu

Poverty, gasoline sniffing and suicide at Davis Inlet

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PROFILE: Still President After All These Years

As anarchy mounts, Zaire's Mobutu calmly enjoys his spoils

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PRESS: Making the NBC Peacock Eat Crow

The network admits rigging a crash-and-burn of a GM truck

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ESPIONAGE: CIA's Political Hot Potato

Debate rages over spy agency's plan to aid U.S. companies

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TECHNOLOGY: Hazards Aloft

Can a CD player really send an airliner off course?

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SCIENCE: Life, the Universe and Everything

Complexity theory may explain nature's rich diversity

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NATURE: Deadly Science

An eruption shows that volcanology is tragically imprecise

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ADVERTISING: Who Made Coca-Cola's new ads?

One clue: it isn't an advertising agency

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SHOW BUSINESS: Wednesday's Child

Pop star Michael Jackson bares his sad innocence on TV

REVIEWS

ART A painter who mixed the Caribbean and the avant-garde 68

CINEMA Sommersby and The Vanishing: the Hollywood touch 69

BOOKS A Violent Act is an unflinching true-crime drama 70

The other King, Tabitha, produces a good pop novel 72

SHORT TAKES 73

DEPARTMENTS

PUBLISHER'S LETTER 4

LETTERS 8

MILESTONES 21

PEOPLE 75

ESSAY 76

Cover: Illustration for TIME by C.F. Payne

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