TIME International

COVER: A Perilous Peace
The killing has finally stopped, but now comes the hard part. The three Presidents have agreed to a complex new design for Bosnia that will be difficult to construct and easy to paralyze as these enemies have to learn to live together

DIPLOMACY: Getting the Relationship Back on Track

Clinton and E.U. leaders will meet to affirm a mutual agenda
POLAND: End of Lech's Era

An ex-communist wrests the presidency away from Walesa
CHECHNYA: Rebels Without a Pause

Bomb blasts signal the breakdown of a four-month truce.
ISRAEL: A Shin Bet mole

A new twist to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
LIBERIA: Once They Were Soldiers

A legion of young warriors try to take back their childhood

CHINA: Coming Down on a Dissident

A warrant formalizes charges that keep Wei Jingsheng in jail
CANADA: High-Flying Allegations

Mulroney files a $37 million lawsuit and denies taking bribes
BUSINESS: A Mouse in the House

Disney is selling the ultimate fantasy--a utopian community
SOCIETY: Till Divorce Us Do Part
The Irish vote to give themselves the right to remarry

SCIENCE: Evolution's Big Bang
What caused the burst of creativity during which nature sketched the designs for virtually all animals? New findings put scientists close to solving a 543 million-year-old mystery

RELIGION: Killing for God

Extremist violence in religion's name is infecting many faiths

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Show Business: Singer Whitney Houston is back with a new movie, a new sound track and a new attitude.
Music:After 25 years, the Beatles are on record again.

Festivals: A French alternative to bombastic Hollywood films.

History: The secret past of "the man without a face."

Sport: The death of skater Sergei Grinkov.

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OLYMPIC MONITOR

COVER: Life in the Fast Lane
For billions of years, life on earth was dominated by plankton, bacteria and algae. Then, in a burst of creativity like nothing before or since, nature sketched the designs for virtually the entire animal kingdom. What could have powered biology's "Big Bang"? New findings put scientists on the verge of solving a 543 million-year-old mystery.

TAIWAN: Voting in China's Chill Wind

Legislative candidates stand up for political independence

CHINA: Coming Down on a Dissident

A warrant formalizes charges that keep Wei Jingsheng in jail
CAMBODIA: To Catch a Prince

Was it a plot to kill a coÐPrime Minister, or just a joke?
MALAYSIA: The Master Builder

Prime Minister Mahathir plans a new $8 billion hub for Asia
POLAND: End of Lech's Era

An ex-communist wrests the presidency away from Walesa

DIPLOMACY: Getting the Relationship Back on Track

Clinton and E.U. leaders will meet to affirm a mutual agenda
CHECHNYA: Rebels Without a Pause

Bomb blasts signal the breakdown of a four-month truce.
ISRAEL: A Shin Bet mole

A new twist to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
BUSINESS: A Mouse in the House

Disney is selling the ultimate fantasy--a utopian community
RELIGION: Killing for God

Extremist violence in religion's name is infecting many faiths

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Show Business: Singer Whitney Houston is back with a new movie, a new sound track and a new attitude.
Music: After 25 years, the Beatles are on record again.

Festivals: A French alternative to bombastic Hollywood films.

Sport: The death of skater Sergei Grinkov.

ESSAY