Vol. 140 No. 9

COVER

"The Heart Wants What It Wants" (Cover Stories)
From his Fifth Avenue penthouse, Woody defends his love for Soon-Yi and heatedly denies allegations of child abuse

And Now the Movie . . . (Cover Stories)

Scenes From A Breakup (Cover Stories)
A storied love affair crashes in shards as Mia Farrow accuses Woody Allen of incest and child molestation. For the prurient, it was a delight; for Allen and for Farrow's motley family, a piteous desce

Soon-Yi: Woody Was Not My Father (Cover Stories)

What Is Incest? (Cover Stories)

NATION

Family Values (The U.S. Campaign)
The Republican pitch seems cynical, but it goes to the soul of what kind of country Americans want

Fox in The Peacock Coop (Grapevine)

Gold Rush in Reverse (The Week: Nation)
California battles a wildfire in the land of Mark Twain and Bret Harte

Gotcha! The CIA's most embarrassing turncoat is nabbed in Stockholm (The Week: Nation)

Here Come the Big Guns (The U.S. Campaign)
After the rhetorical rumbling in Houston, the G.O.P. readies a fierce assault on four policy fronts. Clinton prepares a counterattack, but may be vulnerable on some points

Just Making a Few Repairs (Grapevine)

Playing For The Big Bounce (The Week: Nation)
Bush cuts into Clinton's lead as he rallies his fractious party

Prelude to a Summer Blizzard (The Week: Nation)

Pulpit Politics (The U.S. Campaign)
Bush and Quayle once again need the support of evangelical Christians, but this year those voters can turn to two Baptist candidates: Clinton and Gore

Same To You (Grapevine)

Scorecard (Grapevine)

The Espionage Goes on (Grapevine)

The Political Interest (The U.S. Campaign)
Trouble in Paradise

The Presidency (The U.S. Campaign)
Hail to the Prisoner

The Veep Bites Back (The Week: Nation)
Quayle's tough acceptance speech aims for the Democratic jugular

Vox Pop (Grapevine)

Was This Stuff on CNN? (Grapevine)

WORLD

Black Protest (The Week World)
Economic chaos and corruption charges may topple Brazil's Collor

Boxing In Saddam (Iraq)
A ban on Iraqi flights over the southern marshes is the Bush Administration's latest military -- and political -- battle plan

Can Bosnia Be Fixed With a Hammer? (The Week World)
Military force may be used. But how -- and how much -- is undecided.

Deadly Force (Middle East)
How Israeli commandos are waging an undercover war in the occupied territories

Et Cetera (The Week World)
A Long Reign Ends

Et Cetera (The Week World)
Friendlier Neighbors

Russia For Everyman (The Week World)
Yeltsin wants to give each citizen $62 worth of the state's assets

You Fly, You Die (The Week World)
A plan to protect Shi'ites could put a squeeze on Iraq's Saddam

WAR & TERRORISM

Munich All Over Again? (The Balkans)
Talks on a settlement in Bosnia sound uncomfortably reminiscent of the 1938 surrender to aggression

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Attack of The Superbugs (Medicine)
In the battle against old scourges, magic bullets are losing their power, and invisible legions of drug-resistant microbes are again on the march

Et Cetera (The Week Health & Science)
Stay Cool

Family Planning Reaches the Forest (The Week Health & Science)
A contraceptive vaccine could lick the deer overpopulation problem

Space Invader (The Week Health & Science)
A huge impact 370 million years ago may have killed off most life on earth

The Purge of Battle (The Week Health & Science)
Some of the Persian Gulf is less fouled than it was before the war

SOCIETY

A $500,000 Fragment (The Week: Society)
Part of Lincoln's pivotal "house divided" speech will be auctioned

Last Flight Of a Legend (The Week: Society)
After 13 seasons, Larry Bird takes himself out of the game

No Gunmen for Rent (The Week: Society)
An appeals court rules a magazine liable for a public offer to kill

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

America Abroad
And Now For Some Good News

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August 31, 1992 Vol. 140 No. 9

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BUSINESS

Buying Black
Mainstream companies are cashing in on African-American consumers

Greenback Blues (The Week: Business)
The dollar dives to its lowest level since World War II

Slipping Beneath The Bottom Line (The Week: Business)
Wang Laboratories and Phar-Mor file for bankruptcy court protection

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Collision Of Cultures (Reviews Books)

Murder Midst The Ferns (Reviews Books)

Return From Alienation (Reviews Art)

Short Takes (Reviews)

The Thrust of His Thought (Reviews Cinema)

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