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WORLD: Children wage war, and are its victims too
In battle zones around the globe, kids as young as eight are fighting enemies they do not know, for causes they barely understand. A journey to four places -- Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Burma and Los Angeles (yes, Los Angeles) -- reveals how quickly a child learns to kill.
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NATION: California voters send half a message on taxes
They vote to double their levy on gasoline but only to pay for highways. -- North Carolina and Massachusetts Democrats select their candidates. -- Congressional cold warriors cling to their gospel, but the politics are dubious.
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PROFILE: A woman runs for Governor of California
Dianne Feinstein, former mayor of San Francisco, is a Democrat and a canny politician but also a woman whose cause has national significance.
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BUSINESS: The King of the Deal runs low on cash
Donald Trump is up to his neck in debt, and his bankers are getting nervous. He may have to shrink his empire to stay afloat. -- A new theme park is off to a shaky but promising start.
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ETHICS: Death by lethal invention for an ill teacher
Dr. Jack Kevorkian finds the first patient for his suicide machine -- and becomes the latest, most pugnacious spokesman for the rights of the terminally ill.
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RELIGION: The Russians pick a Baltic Patriarch
Estonian-born Aleksy, the first freely elected head of the Orthodox Church since the Bolshevik Revolution, may be a national leader long after Gorbachev leaves power.
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^ CINEMA: The best comic-strip movie yet: Dick Tracy
Yes, better than Batman. Warren Beatty, Hollywood's most distinctive producer- star, scores after a long dry spell with a gangland drama of wit and grace, narrative sweep and unique visual style. All this and Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman (strutting their roguish stuff while devil-dolled up in grotesque makeup) and a knockout Madonna too. It may not be a great movie -- after all, it's only comic-book art -- but it's great moviemaking.
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HISTORY: Nikita Khrushchev's last years
The deposed leader's son remembers the decision to conduct an early experiment in glasnost and the international sensation that his father's memoirs created.
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VIDEO: Jane Pauley's star keeps on rising
NBC officially installs the former Today host as Tom Brokaw's substitute on the Nightly News, fueling speculation that she may someday be co-anchor.
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Cover: Photograph by James Nachtwey