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COVER: An explosion of people power convulses China as a crackdown looms
As more than a million citizens take to the streets demanding democratic / reforms, officials move to put down the embarrassing challenge to their authority. -- Survivors of the Cultural Revolution reflect on the current unrest. -- Soviet officials wryly cast the best light on Gorbachev's upstaged mission.
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NATION: Prison overcrowding forces authorities to turn criminals loose; Bush's crime message promises little relief
The President proposes constructing more federal lockups, but the real problem is state and local building. -- Congress admits its new ethics rules are discouraging people from taking federal office -- and the "ethics monster" turns on Congress itself. -- A paradox for Western boosterism: Denver voters approve a mammoth modern airport, but Seattle citizens put limits on downtown.
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ENVIRONMENT: Yellowstone recovers from the fires of 1988, but a debate still rages about the park's future
The conflagration was devastating to the area's tourist industry and thus stirred protests against the Park Service's long-established policy of letting natural fires burn. In response, the Government has decreed that all this summer's blazes will be strenuously suppressed. But environmentalists insist that such human intervention threatens the natural cycle of forest renewal.
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BUSINESS: Congress prepares what may be the most extensive -- and embarrassing -- examination of the IRS since Watergate
A yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of alleged wrongdoing by high-level Internal Revenue Service officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders. -- The cable-television industry faces fiercer competition. -- Computer genius Seymour Cray breaks away from the company he founded.
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EDUCATION: In search of an agenda
At first, educators praised his genial style; now Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos is being criticized for inaction, lack of focus and political naivete. A TIME report card.
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INTERVIEW: Keep the nukes, says NATO chief Galvin
The Supreme Commander of Western forces argues that despite Soviet peace initiatives, the U.S. should resist the urge to remove nuclear weapons from Europe.
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PRESS: TV Guide gets a Rupert Murdoch revamp
Last fall the tabloid specialist bought America's leading TV magazine. Now horoscopes and celebrity fluff are tarting up a longtime industry watchdog.
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SHOW BIZ: Indiana Jones is back -- and better than ever
Two roguish stars, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, shine as the Jones boys in the latest of George Lucas' crusading adventures, kicking off this summer of sequels.
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BOOKS: Le Carre hits his old pace in a taut new thriller
The Russia House mixes spying and glasnost, commanding suspense and a treatise on our times. -- Primo Levi's essays distill a mind of rare quality.
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FOOD: An Italian cook stresses the basics
With her best-selling books and private cooking lessons in her Venetian kitchen, Marcella Hazan makes the case for food that "matters."
17 Letters
20 Critics' Choice
22 American Ideas
48 World
64 Science
65 Law
77 Technology
77 Milestones
87 Music
93 People
96 Essay
Cover: Photograph by Chris Niedenthal