Vol. 139 No. 21

COVER

"Working Folks Say. . .'We're Not Interested in Your Damn (Cover Stories)
Positions, Perot, we're interested in your PRINCIPLES.' "

Cover Stories (Cover Stories)

Electoral Roulette (Cover Stories)
If no candidate scores a clean win in November, Congress will have to choose the next President and there could be constitutional chaos

He's Ready, But Is America ready for PRESIDENT PEROT? (Cover Stories)
Look out Washington -- look out George Bush and Bill Clinton -- here comes the first revolution in history ever led by a billionaire

Perot and His Presidents (Cover Stories)
He portrays himself as an outsider, but in the Washington game of money and muscle he is actually the consummate inside player

NATION

An Idea Whose Time Has Passed (Grapevine)

Attention Shoppers (The Week: Nation)

Back in The Straddle (The Week: Nation)
Bush tries to soothe all sides on urban issues and the environment

Et Cetera (The Week: Nation)
Late Vote

Forward Spin (Grapevine)

Let's Boogie (Grapevine)

No Way to Fix an Image (The Week: Nation)
San Francisco's top cop gets chopped for free-lance censorship

One for The Loggers (The Week: Nation)
The White House puts the spotted owl on a precarious limb

R.A.F. to U.S.A.f.: (Grapevine)
Gotcha!

Run, Ross, Run (The Week: Nation)
Hotter than a jalapeno, Perot inches closer to a formal candidacy

See The Sideshow Chief (The Week: Nation)
Gates stages a splashy arrest, while the rest of L.A. digs out

The Shuttlenauts Make a Great Catch (The Week: Nation)
Three bold spacewalkers manhandle a wayward satellite

Urban Renewal, L.A.-Style (Grapevine)

Vox Pop (Grapevine)

Your Enemy Is My Enemy (Grapevine)

WORLD

A Chat with the Gorbachevs (Diplomacy)
The former Soviet President slips easily into the role of senior statesman, showing no regrets about the past and still eager to help shape the future

Balkan Bullies Put the U.N. in Retreat (The Week World)
Serbian-led Yugoslavia presses a war so nasty that outsiders flee

Et Cetera (The Week World)
End of the Line

To Two . . . and Counting (The Week World)
So far we know who will not be the next President of the Philippines

SCIENCE

The Stealth Secretary (Environment)
Once environmentalists dismissed Interior Department chief Manuel Lujan as an affable bumbler. Now they're frightened by his assault on U.S. conservation programs and natural riches.

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Getting The Point In New Haven (Health)
The city's clean needle program has cut the spread of AIDS. Now other towns are seeing the light

SOCIETY

Doctor Death's Visit (The Week: Society)
A Detroit pathologist helps end a "meaningless" life

Et Cetera (The Week: Society)
A More Maternal God

Health Care for All (The Week: Society)
Vermont adopts a plan to provide universal medical treatment

How to Get America Off the Dole
The explosion in L.A. has redoubled calls for welfare reform, but procedural Band-Aids and fiscal tinkering won't solve the problem

The Week Society (The Week: Society)

STYLE & DESIGN

Gilded Cages (Design)
New designs for jails and prisons are showing positive results. The question is, can we afford them?

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page MAY 25, 1992 VOLUME 139 NO. 21

Time (Masthead)
Magazine masthead MAY 25, 1992 VOLUME 139 NO. 21

BUSINESS

A Bear Amid the Bulls (The Week: Business)
Gorbachev gets a heavy dose at the cradle of capitalism

Doing God's Work? (The Week: Business)
Televangelist Robertson bids for a beleaguered news agency

How Failed a Foundation (The Week: Business)
Giant developer Olympia & York topples into bankruptcy court

Missing From Action (The Week: Business)
The eerie disappearance of an Exxon executive greases the rumor mill

Pollution Swap (The Week: Business)
Utility companies trade rights to help reduce acid rain

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Angst For Art's Sake (Reviews Music)

Guys, Dolls and Other Hot Tickets (Theater)
Broadway surges back with a stunning classic from the musical's Golden Age and other starry plays

How I Won The War (Reviews Books)

Really Rembrandt? (Art)
An exhibition in London demonstrates that many works attributed to the great master, including some famous and much loved ones, were painted by his assistants

Short Takes (Reviews)

Surviving In A New World (Reviews Cinema)

Tales of The SoHo Seven (Reviews Television)

Year Of Living Dangerously (Reviews Books)

PEOPLE

Voice Of Her People (Profile)

TO OUR READERS

From the Publisher (From The Publisher)

ESSAY

What Oscar Wilde Knew About Japan