Vol. 136 No. 18
NATION
A Quotas-vs.-Voters Dilemma
The President endangers his support among blacks by digging in his heels on a civil rights bill
American Notes AIR FORCE
Close Encounters
American Notes ALASKA
Will They Just Vote No?
American Notes CIGARETTES
Snuffing Out The Machines
American Notes INDIANS
Chief Offender
American Notes TEXAS
Buzzing Over The Border
Coming Attractions? (Grapevine)
Did He Forget That L.A. Is Closer? (Grapevine)
Enigma of the Week (Grapevine)
Generous Retiree of the Week (Grapevine)
Getting Down and Dirty
In races around the nation, candidates for Governor are attacking their opponents instead of debating issues
Hugh Sidey's America
Why We Still Like Ike A century after his birth, Americans revere Dwight Eisenhower's small-town humanity and commonsense leadership
Ignoble Prize for Candor (Grapevine)
Municipal Affairs
Nashville's mayor puts on a Grand Ole Soap Opry
Not A Class Act
After one last round of partisan wrangling, Congress clears the way for a budget deal by playing the politics of resentment
Sununu Agonistes (Grapevine)
Talk About a Teflon Candidate . . . (Grapevine)
The Back-to-School Advisory (Grapevine)
The Generation Gap
With Friends Like These
New evidence reveals what three Senators did in exchange for Keating's hefty campaign gifts
WORLD
How Israel Is Like Iraq
How Times Have Changed
Japan A Return to Arms?
The Diet launches a contentious debate on whether to send military forces abroad for the first time since World War II
Liberia In the Land of Blood and Tears
A TIME correspondent finds herself on both sides of the fighting in a civil war that has taken 10,000 lives and shows no sign of ending
Soviet Union No Peace for the Prizewinner
Mikhail Gorbachev finally picks a reform program, and Boris Yeltsin promptly picks a fight over who can best end the economic chaos
The Agony of Victory
By reuniting Beirut, Syria's Hafez Assad is the first clear-cut winner of the gulf crisis. The Lebanese may not fare as well.
The Gulf Trip Wires to War
What would it take for the U.S. to attack Iraq, and how would Bush square the decision with the U.N. and Congress?
World Notes BRAZIL
Cupid in the Cabinet
World Notes CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Bitter Glass Of Beer
World Notes ESPIONAGE
And Now There Are Five
World Notes GERMANY
The Check Is In the Mail
World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
Good News, Bad News
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Blocked arteries can be unclogged without surgery, according to studies by leading researchers, and that could transform the way doctors treat heart disease
SOCIETY
A forgiving rabbi tries to enlighten the four teenagers who defaced his home and temple
Sex Lives and Videotape (Behavior)
More and more couples are making do-it-yourself erotic films
PRESS
An ad slump causes newspapers to trim their editorial sails
Saying Goodbye to Mr. Lee
Dow Jones bails out of a long-running feud in Singapore
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 136 No. 18 OCTOBER 29, 1990
BUSINESS
Business Notes AIRCRAFT
Cleared for Takeoff
Business Notes BANKING
Not Made Of Money
Business Notes CONSUMPTION
Running on Tony Time
Business Notes DEALS
Take My Bank, Please
Business Notes TOYS
Hey, Kid: Cut It Out!
The Right Stuff
Does U.S. industry have it? With teamwork and new ideas, GM's Saturn aims to show that American manufacturers can come roaring back
Driving Down Gasoline Alley
The New Boss: A "Car Guy"
EDUCATION
Battered by a sagging economy and a birth dearth, colleges are struggling hard to live within their means
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A forthcoming novel by Bret Easton Ellis has repelled many of the publisher's employees and promises to nauseate readers as well
Abstractions (Books)
Balancing on The Edge of Despair (Books)
Critics' Voices (Critics' Voices)
History with A Saucy Smile (Cinema)
My In-Law, The Housefly (Video)
Off-the-wall comedy flourishes in out-of-the-way places
New Kid (Music)
At 19, Russia's Evgeni Kissin takes America by storm
Unhappy Trails (Books)
SPECIAL SECTION
An insightful tip: diversify ECONOMICS
Playing Chess with Nature (Nobel Prizes)
A master builder of life's complex molecules CHEMISTRY
Quark Hunters (Nobel Prizes)
Going to the heart of matter PHYSICS
Shaky Empires, Then and Now (History)
The Kremlin and the West would both do well to study what happened to the Ottoman Turks at the beginning of the century
PEOPLE
Most Rare Nebraskan BOB KERREY, war hero and restaurateur, won fame as Debra Winger's live-in Governor. Now his unpolitical ways are turning heads.
How To Break the Middle East Oil Habit (Interview)
Texas wildcatter MICHEL HALBOUTY says the U.S. must drill more domestic oil and form worldwide pacts to eliminate the need for Arabian petroleum