Vol. 141 No. 8
COVER
If Clinton follows through on his plan to cut the deficit significantly, he must raise taxes $150 billion or so over the next four years. Here's how he hopes to do it.
Day of Reckoning (Cover Stories)
After weeks of confusion, Bill Clinton comes to impressive and even dangerous clarity on what he hopes to accomplish -- and the sacrifices it will require
Saving a Few Perks for a Rainy Day (Cover Stories)
Welfare for the Well-Off (Cover Stories)
America's comfortable classes may think Clinton is putting the squeeze on them, but he's barely touching billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks
What's in It for Us? (Cover Stories)
Voters in Ohio's Montgomery County want change, but the specter of higher taxes is making them squirm
NATION
Targeting the deficit, the President starts to define "shared sacrifice"
If At First . . . (The Week: Nation)
Clinton tries, tries again to pick an Attorney General
Next for the Cia: Business Spying? (Espionage)
Snooping on foreign companies has become the most hotly debated topic in the U.S. intelligence community
Walsh Soldiers On (The Week: Nation)
The independent counsel lashes out against Bush and Reagan
Wanted Worldwide (The Week: Nation)
The man charged with murdering two CIA employees may be in Pakistan
War on The Potomac (The Week: Nation)
Powell rebuts Pentagon critics but seeks peace with the White House
WORLD
A bleak Labrador Indian community has become Suicide Village
Bomb Brigades (The Week World)
Now North Korea shuts its doors to international nuclear inspectors
Going Back (The Week World)
France's Mitterrand leads the West's return to Vietnam
Human Collateral (The Week World)
Baghdad offers to barter two captured Britons for cash
Mr. Clinton Pulls Up a Chair (The Week World)
The U.S. opts to join international peace talks rather than fight in Bosnia
The Big Scrub (The Week World)
Operation Clean Hands is rocking Italy's political foundations
The Guns Talk Too (Diplomacy)
Clinton accepts a peace plan he once rejected, but leaves open a military option
The Pope in Africa (The Week World)
SCIENCE
A sudden and fatal eruption in Colombia shows again that volcanology is tragically imprecise
Is It Live or Is It Cybernetic?
The New Field of Complexity May Explain Mysteries From the Stock Market to the Emergence of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything
HEALTH & MEDICINE
A frightening immune disorder turns out to be rare and noncontagious
Choosing Death (The Week Health & Science)
A new Dutch law makes euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide easier
Helpful H-Bomb (The Week Health & Science)
A Chinese nuclear test reveals a subterranean "continent"
Opening The Border to AIDS (Health)
Clinton's plan to welcome infected foreigners may be medically justifiable, but it's politically explosive
Pounds Of Prevention (The Week Health & Science)
The Clintons promote childhood vaccinations -- and blast drugmakers
SOCIETY
Is rape an inevitable -- and marginal -- part of war? Bosnia opens a terrible new perspective. It shows rape as policy to scorch the enemy's emotional earth.
PRESS
The network suffers a humiliating bout of confessions and soul-searching after admitting it rigged the crash-and-burn of a GM truck
TECHNOLOGY
Could a CD player, a laptop computer or a hand-held video game send an airliner off course?
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time Magazine Masthead February 22, 1993 Volume 141 No. 8 (Masthead)
BUSINESS
Reluctantly, mutual-fund managers shut the door on new money
Crossed Wires (The Week: Business)
A proposed deal may be the opening salvo in a major cable TV battle
Gun Rationing (The Week: Business)
Hollywood Rocks Madison Avenue (Advertising)
Creative Artists shakes up the ad business with a sparkling new series of commercials for Coca-Cola
LAW
The first crusade of the Clinton years has millions of families worried about being scofflaws
Partners For Life (Law Enforcement)
Under Fire at the FBI (Law Enforcement)
Accused of abusing the perks of his job, the director fiercely defended himself. But he has succeeded only in sparking a rebellion from within.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Home Games (Reviews Book)
Peter Pan Speaks (Show Business)
O.K., maybe he isn't as weird as he seemed, but in a blockbuster TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson reveals a sad, innocent child within
Remade The American Way (Reviews Cinema)
Short Takes (Reviews)
Taking Back His Own Gods (Reviews Art)
PEOPLE
As anarchy grows around him, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire serenely enjoys lobster and champagne in his jungle paradise