Vol. 140 No. 19
COVER
Roger's Painful Legacy (Cover Stories)
The Cowboy Driving Olds (Cover Stories)
What Went Wrong? Everything at once. (Cover Stories)
How the world's largest corporation broke down, and why the human cost of repairs will be brutal
NATION
A grand jury charges Weinberger anew, involving George Bush
Campaign Quiz (Grapevine)
Consider The Source (U.S. Campaign)
Equal Opportunity War (Grapevine)
Hanging On for Dear Life (Grapevine)
How The Kids Call It (The Week: Nation)
Not So Fast, Rookies! (Grapevine)
Perot-Noia (U.S. Campaign)
Throughout the campaign, Perot complained that no one wanted to talk about the issues. But often his judgment became the issue.
Proving A Negative (The Week: Nation)
A Russian official finds no evidence that Alger Hiss was a spy
Some Of His Best Friends (Grapevine)
Take Your Mitts Off My Carrier (Grapevine)
Too Mixed, Too Late (The Week: Nation)
Vox Pop (Grapevine)
What Will Ross Perot Do Next? (The Week: Nation)
A debating star strikes out at unseen enemies as the race tightens
WORLD
Middle East peace talks plod on, despite fighting along Israel's border
Boris Barks Back (The Week World)
Yeltsin moves to fend off Russia's increasingly hostile Old Guard
Et Cetera (The Week World)
Them Again
It Was No in Any Language (The Week World)
Canadians reject a constitution, but a split-up still seems unlikely
Struggling to Be Themselves (The Americas)
Victor Beware (Britain)
John Major's status quo policies may have won him re-election, but they have failed to repair theeconomy
What Deal? (The Week World)
London and Beijing bicker over how democratic Hong Kong should be
Where Children Come First (Europe)
Instead of just talking about family values, France offers a wide range of programs from the cradle to the grave to promote a more stable, equitable and caring society
SCIENCE
From fuel spills and toxic wastes to live shells and lethal landfills, the U.S. military is the nation's No. 1 polluter
Search for The Wolf (Nature)
Ranchers and animal lovers have fought for years over plans to bring the predator back to Yellowstone. Now the beast may be taking the matter into its own paws.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
The FDA approves a controversial birth control injection
Get Out the Lifeboats! Antarctica Is Melting (The Week Health & Science)
New evidence suggests the ice caps are more fragile than assumed
Heads Up (The Week Health & Science)
A comet may strike the earth in mid-August . . . of the year 2126
The Biggest Killer of Women: Heart Attack (Medicine)
SOCIETY
Brandon's Fade-Out
Et Cetera (The Week: Society)
The Thin Red Line
In Texas, A Grim Question of Survival (The Week: Society)
An accused rapist insists an offered condom implied consent
Miscellany Roll Over Beethoven (The Week: Society)
What Would It Take to Get America off Drugs?
A new book argues that the effort to cut off supply has failed. It's time to focus on the treatment and education programs that have proven power to reduce demand.
When Lobbyists Become Insiders (Ethics)
While working for presidential campaigns, influence peddlers may be serving their own interests
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
The War That Will Not End
Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
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BUSINESS
Bill Cosby eyes NBC, but will he have a prescription for the ailing network?
Et Cetera (The Week: Business)
Don't Leave Home . . .
License Suspended (The Week: Business)
GM's chairman takes the fall, but his company is still speeding downhill
Stern Warning (The Week: Business)
Tips From The Master (The Week: Business)
How to make a billion while all around you lose their shirts
EDUCATION
Advisers offer perplexed parents clever college-aid schemes. But where's the line between working the system -- and cheating it?
LAW
How the FBI tried to ensnare a Bush campaign official on a tip from Ross Perot
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The funny, fabulous feature from Disney heralds a new Golden Age of animation
Evil Is an Outsider (Cinema)
Gerald Ford Redux (Books)
Haunted by History (Cinema)
More Than Child's Play (Music)
Short Takes (Reviews)
Thumbing A Hispanic Nose (Theater)
PEOPLE
Watch out: an unrepentant Sinead O'Connor blasts the Catholic church, Bob Dylan and the treatment of women