Time Magazine Contents Page

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COVER: How GM Broke Down

An inside look at the crisis within the world's largest automaker, where directors carried out a boardroom coup that could hasten the elimination of 120,000 jobs

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Overhauling Olds

Now a cowboy is at the wheel

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Haunted by Roger

The board fired the wrong guy

51

Chrysler's Comeback

It's even sweeter this time

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U.S. CAMPAIGN: Perot-noia

What Perot's tale says about his conspiratorial world view

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JUSTICE: The Sting That Failed

How the FBI tried to ensnare a Bush campaign official

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ETHICS: Lobbyists on the Inside

Campaign volunteers may be serving their own interests

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SOCIETY: Getting America Unhooked

A new book says drug treatment and education really work

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THE AMERICAS: The Path to Freedom

Recovering land, regaining sovereignty, with new strategies

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BRITAIN: Beware the Perils of Victory

The cautionary tale of John Major and his status-quo policies

57

AMERICA ABROAD: The War That Will Not End

Vietnam imposed a life sentence on an entire generation

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EUROPE: Where Children Come First

; On family values, France practices what America preaches

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EDUCATION: The Perplexing Financial-Aid Game

Parents are beset by new rules -- and ethical concerns

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NATURE: A Wolf at Yellowstone's Door

Gone for 60 years, the animals may have returned to the park

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ENVIRONMENT: Polluters in Uniform

Cleaning up the military's mess will cost billions

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MEDICINE: Women's No. 1 Killer

Heart attacks top the list, yet treatment is geared to men

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CINEMA: Disney's Magic-Carpet Ride

Aladdin marks a new high for the grand old cartoon art

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INTERVIEW: The Passion of Sinead O'Connor

The controversial singer sounds off -- again

REVIEWS

BOOKS Updike portrays a life during Gerald Ford's years 80

CINEMA Waterland isn't simple, but it's weirdly compelling 81

Skillful direction makes Jennifer 8 a taut whodunit 82

MUSIC Unexpected stars are playing to the tiny-bopper set 82

THEATER A family comes alive in a one-man Spic-O-Rama 83

SHORT TAKES 89

COVER: 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air photographed by Ron Kimball

DEPARTMENTS

PUBLISHER'S LETTER 4

LETTERS 8

GRAPEVINE 17

MILESTONES 27

PEOPLE 91

ESSAY 92

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