American Notes AIR FORCE
A $90 Million Mistake

American Notes DALLAS
See Oswald's Lair -- for $4

American Notes HOLLYWOOD
Kane Steals Ted's Crayons

American Notes INDIANS
Turmoil in the Navajo Nation

Have Weapons, Will Shoot
As the toll grows, a survey shows Americans want to crack down

Mandela House (American Ideas)
A Hand and a Home For Pregnant Addicts Minnie Thomas provides meat loaf, reality treatment and straight talk

Raining On Baker's Parade
Who said being Secretary of State would be easy?

That Was Zen, This Is Now
Jerry Brown returns as, of all things, a party regular

The Immigration Mess
A surge of Central American refugees finds the U.S. unprepared

The Presidency
The Real Deficit Is Water

Top-Secret Strategy
The "cuckoo-clock trial" of Oliver North is set to start . . . and stop . . . and start . . . and stop . . .


Afghanistan Rebels with Too Many Causes
Who's who behind the mujahedin's quarreling factions

Chemical Weapons The Mysterious
"Doctor B." An Iraqi, Ihsan Barbouti, is the middleman who arranged the construction of Gaddafi's poison-gas factory

Hunted by An Angry Faith
Salman Rushdie's novel cracks open a fault line between East and West

Hybrid Creature, Invisible Man

South Africa Decline and Fall of a Heroine
Why Winnie Mandela is an outcast among black leaders

Why Believers Are Outraged

World Notes NORTHERN IRELAND
Caught in the Cross Hair

World Notes POLAND
Reopening an Old Wound

World Notes SCANDINAVIA
A Sovereign Plea for Seals

World Notes TERRORISM
Fatal Deception


The Rats Are Coming (Environment)
Can Boston's Pied Piper save the city from a rodent invasion?


Time Is Not on Their Side (Behavior)
Fresh insights into why many poor children do badly in school


Knocking On Death's Door
In covering tragedies, do journalists go too far?


Many Are Called
Dialing for Jesus


Chess Prodigy $10,000 prize for a rising star


Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page Vol. 133 No. 9 FEBRUARY 27, 1989

Time (Masthead)
Magazine masthead Vol. 133 No. 9 FEBRUARY 27, 1989

Business Notes ADVERTISING
Been Lonely Too Long

Business Notes EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Accounting For Promises

Business Notes PROPHYLACTICS
A Burst of Controversy

Business Notes SAVINGS AND LOANS
Offers They Can't Afford

Business Notes SNACKS
Pass the Pork Rinds, Mr. Prez

Damages For A Deadly Cloud
The Bhopal tragedy will cost Union Carbide $470 million

Fill 'Er Up with No-Fault, Please
A solution to the auto-insurance mess: coverage by the tankful

Gimme Shelter
First-time home buyers battle to beat the odds

Leaving Tips
Here comes the service charge

Merger Mystery
Is the media mogul a mole?


Mixed Review
Some progress, more needed

Peace Crusade
A new breed of antiwar activist takes on military recruiters


Bad Neighbors (Cinema)

Critics' Choice (Critics' Choice)

Drawn by Nature's Pencil (Photography)
For the 150th anniversary of camera art, Houston maps a world of images

In The Shadow of Dutch Schultz (Books)

Kitchen Beefs (Theater)

Show-Biz Nose (Cinema)

Street Smarts (Books)


Wait'Ll We Tell the Folks Back Home (Travel)
What $360 million buys these days in luxury and fantasy


Driven To Beat the Budget (Profile)
An idealist with a knack for compromise, a futurist skilled in improvisation, RICHARD DARMAN is a joyful public servant


From the Publisher (From The Publisher)