Vol. 135 No. 19
NATION
Trouble in Paradise
American Notes CRIME
Keeping Tabs On Hate
American Notes MONTANA
Earth Day with Guru Ma
American Notes THE BRONX
Imitation Of Life
American Notes THE NAVY
Commending The Vincennes
For The Love of Money
Shaking down contributors vs. shaking up the system
Fox-in-the-Chicken-Coop Suggestion (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Loser of the Week (Grapevine)
Sticking To His Guns
Cheney chops the Pentagon budget but refuses to reshape it
The Agony Over Israel
American Jews face a dilemma: how to criticize the Jewish state without seeming disloyal
The Lazarus Outrage Trophy (Grapevine)
The Political Interest
Congress: Twelve Is Enough
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Wellesley's unease over wife and mother Barbara Bush renews the debate about women's divided loyalties
Winner of the Week (Grapevine)
Wrong Number
A college president quits after making obscene calls
WORLD
Middle East One Home, 21 to Go
Why it would be a surprise to see any more captives freed soon -- and why there is also more hope for them than ever
Mongolia Asia's Gentle Rebel
As democracy stirs in this frozen outpost of Stalinism, the leadership takes a slow-motion approach to perestroika
Nicaragua Chamorro Takes a Chance Was the newly inaugurated President right to retain Sandinista commander Humberto Ortega as head of the armed forces?
South Africa The Other Black Leader
Buthelezi may be prince of the Zulus, but he is a king-size headache to Mandela and the A.N.C.
Soviet Union No Embargo On Advice
The West urges Lithuania to slow down
World Notes BRITAIN
Knavish Tricks
World Notes COLOMBIA
Election by Elimination
World Notes COMMUNISTS
Accentuating The Positive
World Notes ROMANIA
Is the Past Prologue?
World Notes ZAIRE
Moving Up But Not Out
SCIENCE
Pentagon warriors enlist the ionosphere against smugglers
HEALTH & MEDICINE
A major doctors' group joins the drive to overhaul health care
Bread Goes Upper Crust (Food)
Across the U.S., gourmet loaves are on the rise
RELIGION
An "inclusive" Bible translation joins a crowded market
TECHNOLOGY
Recent advances make bicycles faster, safer and simpler to ride
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Vol. 135 No. 19 MAY 7, 1990
BUSINESS
Debacle for A Discounter
Business Notes COPYRIGHTS
Your Rent's Due, Jimmy
Business Notes FIREARMS
Don't Touch That Gun
Business Notes LABOR
The Scab's Baedeker
Business Notes THE RICH
Trump's Dash For Cash
Fallen Master of the Universe
The junk-bond king pleads guilty, but he's getting off light
Hurry, Doctor!
Gorbachev is moving too cautiously in dispensing the bitter medicine that the Soviet Union needs. Here is the prescription he must swiftly administer
Just Who Are Those Guys?
A reclusive Middle East firm buys Saks for $1.5 billion
Sailing On Warm Trade Winds
In a turnabout, the U.S. takes Japan off the hit list
EDUCATION
An alarming rise in hatred roils U.S. campuses
Voting With His Feet
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Blunt History (Theater)
Brilliant, But Not For Real (Art)
A show surveys old and new masters of forgery
Class Act (Books)
X Rated (Show Business)
It's a four-letter world out there: in rock and rap, in movies and on TV, in comedy clubs and real life. Many love it, especially kids. Many others hate it or don't get it. Should anything be done?
Critics' Voices (Critics' Voices)
Faded Jeans (Books)
Tape-Of-the-month Club (Video)
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