Vol. 144 No. 23
COVER
Its charter fading, its goals diverging, the nation needs to redefine what leadership means
Tomorrow (LEADERSHIP)
As the November elections stressed anew, America has become vastly suspicious of leaders. Yet it continues to produce them: TIME has picked 50 with the requisite ambition, vision and community spirit
Where Are They Now? (LEADERSHIP)
The legends-to-be were all there when we named future leaders in 1974 and 1979 -- Bill Clinton, Dan Rather, J. Stanley Pottinger . . . J. Stanley Pottinger?
NATION
A Wing and a Prayer (The Presidency)
Democrats dream that the G.O.P. mandate will self-destruct, allowing Clinton to push his old agenda. But reality keeps flooding back
Awestruck (Chronicles)
Fun Guy of the Week (Chronicles)
Health Report (Chronicles)
Inside Washington (Chronicles)
A Ghost of Christmas Past (and Crass) at HUD
Now, About That Contract (The Presidency)
The Aldrich Ames Holiday Shopping Guide (Chronicles)
The Week November 20-26 (Chronicles)
What's on Jesse's Mind? (Foreign Policy)
The answer is trouble: The shoot-from-the-lip Senator has his own distinct world view, and Bill Clinton won't like it
Winners & Losers (Chronicles)
WORLD
The investigation of a politician's murder shakes Mexico as a new President takes over
Surrounded by Enimies (Middle East)
Tarnished Armor (Italy)
The man who rode to the country's rescue now finds himself under attack. Can he remain in the saddle?
The Red-Army Blues (Russia)
Pavel Grachev, Moscow's embattled Defense Minister, is faring as poorly as the army he commands
The Seeds of Civil War (Middle East)
With Arafat loyalists and Hamas militants exchanging threats, turmoil intensifies in the Gaza Strip
Theater of the Absurd (Bosnia)
After 31 months of war, the world still has not found a way to make the Serbs quit while they are ahead
WAR & TERRORISM
A clandestine operation funnels nuclear material out of Central Asia for safekeeping in Tennessee
SOCIETY
After years of controversy and delay, the drugs that can end a pregnancy without surgical intervention are being tested in Des Moines and other American cities
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Taking Issue with Jesse
Time (Contents)
Contents December 5, 1994 Vol. 144 No. 23
Time (Masthead)
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LAW
Voters love to restrict incumbents, but the Supreme Court may squash the idea
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Unearthed recordings by Sviatoslav Richter confirm that he is one of the great artists of the age
Baseball's Evil Genius (Arts & Media / CINEMA)
In Cobb, Tommy Lee Jones plays the hero as he really was
Decorum and Fury (Arts & Media / ART)
A historic exhibition shows the force of reality and mystery in the work of Poussin
Ethnic Writer Bears Witness (Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Louis Auchincloss's stories chart the decline of a people
Hitler's December Years (Television)
A political thriller asks, What if the Nazis had won the war?
Love Letters (Arts & Media / THEATER)
Virginia Woolf corresponds with Vita Sackville-West
Mise-En-Mall (Arts & Media / BOOKS)
A collection arrives from our only shopaholic film critic
One Small, Unhappy Family (Arts & Media / THEATER)
A revival captures the poetry of The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' drama of the anguished Wingfields
Red Plague (Arts & Media / CINEMA)
China's premier director challenges the censors again
Slice and Dice (Arts & Media / CINEMA)
The Professional is a violent mix of disparate elements
When the Judge Is Guilty (Arts & Media / CINEMA)
Love redeems an ashamed, regretful jurist in Red, the conclusion to Krzysztof Kieslowski's fine Three Colors trilogy
Yankee Snopes (Arts & Media / CINEMA)
The Beans of Egypt, Maine, is not set in Kennebunkport
TO OUR READERS
LETTERS
Death and Deceit (Letters To The Editor)
Differing Preoccupations (Letters To The Editor)
Lives Of Quiet Desperation (Letters To The Editor)
Looking At Clarence Thomas (Letters To The Editor)
Prevention Or Punishment? (Letters To The Editor)
Reagan's Toughest Foe (Letters To The Editor)
Views Of Newt (Letters To The Editor)
Wildlife At Stake (Letters To The Editor)