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COVER: Richard Nixon gets personal, describing the agony of his exile after Watergate and his long struggle for renewal

In a new memoir, the former President recounts his post-resignation depression and his efforts to restore his physical, mental and spiritual health. -- Interview: Nixon tells why he wrote the book, speculates about his place in history and sizes up today's leaders.

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WORLD: In Lithuania, a test of wills between two canny and stubborn leaders

Gorbachev's success may turn on his ability to bend Landsbergis to his will. -- Westward Ho! After a heady election, East Germans face the hard task of shaping a new government. -- Vaclav Havel delivers bad news to budding terrorists.

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NATION: Life and death politics

Candidates try to prove their toughness by calling for more executions. -- Democratic neoliberals are looking for a new theme song. -- Hazelwood is ordered to help clean up Alaska.

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BUSINESS: What happened to the Japanese bull?

A faltering yen and a plunging Tokyo stock market threaten to choke the country's economy and sap its confidence. -- Brazil learns to live without cash.

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ART: A sensational heist at Boston's Gardner Museum

In a grossly inflated art market, burglars make off with old-master paintings. -- The Getty buys the world's most expensive work, Van Gogh's Irises, but won't reveal the price.

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SHOW BUSINESS: Lean, mean and on the big screen

They're a smash on TV, a top-selling toy; there's even a breakfast cereal named for them. Now watch out, dude, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are in a major motion picture.

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MUSIC: At last the Opera Bastille opens, in triumph

Although it flirted dangerously with catastrophe at times, a new production of Berlioz's Les Troyens serves notice that there will be no more business as usual in Paris.

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PROFILE: Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn

For 50 years, theater's first couple have defined acting in America. They have triumphed in nearly everything, in fact, including marriage.

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FASHION: What's beyond the mini? No skirt at all

At last week's ready-to-wear shows in Paris, the silhouettes of 1789 and the 1990 headlines from the Soviet Union provided themes. But the freshest looks featured bodysuits and leggings topped by big jackets and swingy capes. Are skirts dead? Well, not quite, but they're under attack.

10 Letters

17 Critics' Voices

56 Science

56 Medicine

56 Milestones

66 Books

70 Environment

71 Theater

72 Sport

77 People

78 Essay

Cover: Photograph by William Coupon