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TO OUR READERS 4

LETTERS 12

CHRONICLES 21

MILESTONES 29

COVER: Blinksmanship 30

Clinton hands off to Carter to make a deal that forestalls invasion but

falls short of the President's promises. Now, can American power sort

out Haiti's problems?

Eyes on the Nobel Peace Prize?

Powell: Eyes on the White House?

The Armed Forces: Risky business on the ground

Clinton's Diplomacy: The failure to confront evil

BOSNIA: Remember Sarajevo? 44

A dispatch from the beseiged capital as the first snows fall

POLITICS: Keep Out! You Poor, You Tired 46

In big states, immigration has become a political powder keg

CONTROVERSY: Whither the Klan? 51

Divisions arise within the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

SCANDALS: Charitable Seductions 51

How funds from United Way were siphoned to a mistress

PUBLIC EYE: California, Here They Come 52

Margaret Carlson on the seemingly unstoppable Huffingtons

FEUDS: Stepmommie Dearest? 54

Did Pamela Harriman squander her stepchildren's fortune?

BUSINESS: Edgy Days at General Electric 56

In a TIME interview, CEO Jack Welch takes on his critics

THE WORKPLACE: She Said, He Misunderstood 60

Deborah Tannen's new book examines office genderspeak

JUSTICE: Questionable Judgments 62

A new book says the jury system is in deep trouble

EDUCATION: Beyond the Sound Barrier 66

Why the first deaf Miss America may not be a model for the deaf

SCIENCE: Bones from the Dawn of Humanity 68

New fossils prove our roots reach back 4.4 million years

MEDICINE: A Viral Trigger for Diabetes 69

The body's overreaction to an infection may start the disease

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Show Business: Cirque du Soleil dazzles the eye and heart with two

spectacular new shows 70

A bad-movie blowout from Mystery Science Theatre 3000 73

Cinema: The River Wild succeeds with Streep at the helm

74

Music: Nanci Griffith may be folk's best messenger 76

Books: Joseph Heller revisits Catch-22 78

Short stories from Alice Munro demonstrate a fine mastery

80

Lorrie Moore tricks out a wispy novel set in Paris 80

Three women turn out a trio of crime novels with lady cops

84

Television: "Entertainment news" is an oxymoron 85

PEOPLE 87

ESSAY 88