Time

TO OUR READERS 4

LETTERS 10

CHRONICLES 17

MILESTONES 25

INTELLIGENCE: Thugs on the CIA Payroll 26

Did the U.S. foster brutality by paying for information?

HAITI: Flying Down to Port-au-Prince 30

The U.S. tries to provide a safe landing for Aristide

Interview: Aristide eyes his future

POLITICS: The Threat to Free Trade 34

Business bridles as Gingrich pushes back the GATT agreement

Detroit: Scoring with the Japanese

ON THE MONEY: Banana Wars 39

Why free trade is like free love

REGULATION: An Unsavory Chicken Soup 42

Under Clinton, the poultry industry is getting a free lunch

EDUCATION: Schools for Sale 48

A Connecticut city starts a revolution by privatizing its schools

CONTROVERSY: DARE Bedeviled 49

A study questions the effectiveness of a popular drug program

SOUTHEAST ASIA: Ghosts of Vietnam 50

A fresh look at whether the U.S. really tried to rescue POWs

IRAQ: Suddenly, Saddam Again 54

Baghdad deploys its troops to force the U.N. to lift sanctions

CULTS: The Rose, the Cross, the Flames 59

On two continents, mass death in an apocalyptic sect

COVER: Behind the Bedroom Door 62

How good is America's sex life? The first truly scientific survey

of who does what with whom -- and just how often they do it --

smashes a lot of myths and yields some delicious surprises

Garrison Keillor: The view from Lake Wobegon 71

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Art: In nuanced abstractions, Cy Twombly shores up scribbly

fragments against the ruins of the past 72

Cinema: Woody Allen's latest is deft and funny and profound

74

Photography: Robert Frank, father of downer picturesque

76

Theater: A.R. Gurney ill-serves John Cheever 78

The former John-Boy Walton transforms into Richard III 78

Music: Neil Young and Eric Clapton sound fresh 79

Books: Composer Ned Rorem's tart autobiography 81

, A hit novel deals wittily and gracefully with race 81

Ed McBain returns with another superb thriller 84

Museums: A peek at the secret treasures of the Hermitage

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PEOPLE 87

ESSAY 88