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TO OUR READERS 4

LETTERS 6

CHRONICLES 15

MILESTONES 23

POLICY: This Time, Says NATO, We Mean It 24

Bosnia's Serbs are told: Stop the shelling or get bombed

THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Sarajevo to Needle Park 29

On Bosnia and drugs, sweet words mask meager policies

SARAJEVO EYEWITNESS: Who's Happy Now? 30

Journalist Zlatko Dizdarevic tells how it really is

MIDDLE EAST: Partway Home 34

Israel and the P.L.O. take a step toward Palestinian self-rule

SOUTH AFRICA: Bound for Victory 35

Mobilization matters most if the A.N.C. is to win big

DIPLOMACY: Irreconcilable Differences 41

Clinton and Hosokawa can't agree on trade--and they say so

THE BUDGET: President Meets "Pay-as-You-Go" 42

Clinton juggles priorities and gets bad news on health care

SCANDALS: Tailhook Finally Flames Out 45

A judge blasts the Navy chief and dismisses the last charges

BUSINESS: Sculley Splits 46

Apple's erstwhile visionary and Spectrum file for divorce

COVER: Heads Up! It's the Olympics 48

At last the real Games begin. But the preliminaries have been fascinating, a combination of skulduggery on ice, murder, accidents and a stampede of tabloid journalists.

With Blades Drawn: The gauzy world of women's figure skating may never be the same after Tonya Harding

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Music: Fed up, the Metropolitan Opera fires one of its biggest but most temperamental stars, soprano Kathleen Battle 60

Cinema: Reality Bites takes a tart look at the postcollege crowd 64

Theater: Edward Albee returns with a stunning drama 64

Books: Reflecting on life's final mystery -- death 68

An obsessive novel about obsessive love 70

Show Business: With a monstrous portrayal, a star is born 73

PEOPLE 75

ESSAY 76

COVER: Photomontage: Kerrigan photograph for TIME by Neal Preston--Outline; Harding photograph by Tom Treick -- The Oregonian/Sygma

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