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TO OUR READERS 4
LETTERS 8
CHRONICLES 17
MILESTONES 25
IMMIGRATION: Slamming the Door 28
Fearing a refugee flood, Clinton tells the Cubans to stay home
THE WHITE HOUSE: Someone to Watch Over Bill 34
Leon Panetta makes his mark as Clinton's chief of staff
PUBLIC EYE: Basketball to the Rescue 35
A full-court press for midnight sports -- and the crime bill
WHITEWATER: Thanks for the Memories 37
Treasury officials resign, casualties of congressional testimony
The Political Interest: It's time for Starr to go
PUBLIC OPINION: Anger from the Grass Roots 38
People speak out in an Ohio county and in a national poll
CIVIL RIGHTS: The Trials of the N.A.A.C.P. 40
A leadership crisis plagues the venerable organization
JUSTICE: The Truth, the Whole Truth 45
Do two witnesses in the O.J. case know more than they told?
COVER: New Fuel for Terror 46
Fears of nuclear Armageddon and Carlos-style terrorism are
fading, but now samples from Russia's thousand-ton stockpile
of plutonium and uranium are for sale on the illicit market
Amateur Hour: The nuts and bolts of bombmaking 48
Burned-Out Case: Carlos the Jackal is brought to justice
53
RWANDA: Exodus II? 56
Fearing reprisals, thousands more Hutu threaten to flee
Burundi: Another ethnic powder keg next door
ENVIRONMENT: Are No Trees Safe? 58
Loggers push into South America's most pristine forests
SCIENCE: Tempest in a Petri Dish 60
Researchers want to create human embryos for experiments
Dyslexia: A specific area in the brain may be the trouble spot
BOOK EXCERPT: Achievement Counts 63
In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry III
THE ARTS & MDIA
Cinema: Natural Born Killers is the most exasperating, most
excessive, most . . . well, it's the most movie in a long time
66
Television: A teenage drama from thirtysomething's creators
71
Music: An actress makes a graceful transition to singing
71
Books: Is literature threatened by the recorded-book boom?
73
Hollywood gossip surfeits John Gregory Dunne's novel 75
Show Business: Michael Jackson's producer, a pop maestro
79
PEOPLE 81
ESSAY 82
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