Vol. 135 No. 21

NATION

A Baffling Ozone Policy

American Notes CRIME
A Vested Interest

American Notes DISASTERS
The Southwest Goes Under

American Notes JUSTICE
A Shocking Way to Go

American Notes NEW YORK CITY
Begging the Question

Big Bad John Sununu
He's smarter than you are, and he wants you to know it. That's why George Bush prizes his brusque but brilliant White House chief of staff

Ignore My Lips
And forget Sununu too, Bush tells Congress, as he calls a budget summit and hints that it may even talk about -- shhh! -- raising t---

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It's Ugly, But It Works
Fears about the environment fuel a revolution on the farm

Loser of the Week (Grapevine)

The Daddy Warbucks Gold Money Clip (Grapevine)

The Madame Defarge Rabbit's Foot (Grapevine)

Watergate (Grapevine)
Where are they now?

Who Needs the Marines?
From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of redundancy

Winner of the Week (Grapevine)

WORLD

Africa Continental Shift
In Africa too, authoritarian regimes are giving way to multiparty systems. But can democracy thrive in countries that cannot even feed themselves?

Albania And Then There Were None
Reform comes to Europe's last Stalinist state

Kenya: The Surprising Holdout

Nationalism's Silver Lining
A Soviet Communist Party analyst reflects candidly on his country's problems

Panama Sincerely, Manuel Writing from Miami, Noriega stirs up trouble back home

Romania Two Cheers for the Front Runner
Though Iliescu leads in the polls, many voters doubt he will bring Western-style democracy to a tempestuous political scene

South Korea Kicking and Screaming
Students charge that Roh's goal is to accumulate power

World Notes CHINA
It's All in The Timing

World Notes IRAN
Clearing the Underbrush

World Notes IRAQ
Happy Birthday To Me . . .

World Notes SOVIET UNION
Brickbats from The Baltics

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Bringing Sanity to the Diet Craze (Health)
The Government considers tough new rules for weight-loss firms

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BUSINESS

"I Really Won the Lottery This Time"

Business Notes COLLECTIBLES
Fine Art's Blue Period

Business Notes CREDIT
Lighten Up, Lenders

Business Notes ENTERTAINMENT
Warning: Rock Music Ahead

Business Notes SALES PROMOTIONS
Bargain for the Born Again

Business Notes SPORTS EQUIPMENT
Putting a Lid On Cyclists

Encore, Encore
A faster, bigger Concorde could cost $10 billion or more

If The Loot's There, He'll Find It
S&L crooks beware: private eye Edmund Pankau is on your trail

Shooting The Works Lights! Camera! Money!
Hollywood is on a spree!

EDUCATION

Dollars, Scholars and Gender
Must women's colleges like Mills either go coed or go under?

Fighting The Failure Syndrome
A radical proposal for black boys: separate classes

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Novel Treatment of a Legend (Books)

A Sleeper with a Dream (Video)
After the eerie Twin Peaks, TV may never be the same again

Doing The Ultimate Deal (Cinema)

Jailhouse Blues (Books)

One To Miss (Books)

Saturday-Night Sizzle (Show Business)
A raunchy comic's guest shot makes women see red

SPECIAL SECTION

The Great Cafes of Paris (Travel)
Though times have changed on the old boulevards, the moveable feast continues

PEOPLE

"Mankind Cannot Do Without Nuclear Power" (Sakharov)

Sakharov And Solzhenitsyn: a Difference in Principle (Sakharov)

Testing The Limits Of Middle Age Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympics. He's now 40 years old, but he really believes he'll be in Barcelona in 1992 (Interview)

The Wallenberg Mystery (Sakharov)

Who Murdered Lake Baikal? (Sakharov)

Years In Exile (Sakharov)

TO OUR READERS

From the Publisher (From The Publisher)

LETTERS

On Planting Trees

ESSAY

In Praise of Low Voter Turnout