A Choice of Arms
Does the U.S. really need a new nuclear missile?

America Abroad
How to Move the Immovable

American Notes NEW YORK CITY
Ruling Out The Board

American Notes PARKS
Mott Out, Fund Raisers In

American Notes RIGHTS
A Chairman's Odd Antics

American Notes TAXES
A Kinder Collector

An Attack Dog, Not a Lapdog
House Republicans make feisty Newt Gingrich their No. 2 man

Dea Don Juan
How a coke Casanova turned 'em on and turned 'em in

Good Place for A Test Case
Washington may be the first front in Bennett's drug war

Recrossing The Thin Blue Line
Randall Adams is free of everything but the media

The Diaspora's Discontent
U.S. Jews are leaning on Shamir to bend his rigid policies

Water Marketing A Deal That Might Save A Sierra (American Ideas)
Gem Negotiators are trying to sustain Mono Lake by buying irrigation water from unused fields


Central America Back to Square One
The U.S. is disappointed in the outcome of El Salvador's election, but Bush and Congress get their act together on Nicaragua

Following An Independent Course
Breaking his silence, Syria's Assad talks about Arafat, Khomeini and hostages

India The Awakening of An Asian Power
Armed and assertive, the world's most populous democracy takes its place as a military heavyweight

Scandals More Sex Please, We're British
Tattlers remake the Profumo scandal in the tabs and onscreen

World Notes AFGHANISTAN
Impasse at Jalalabad

World Notes AUSTRALIA
True Confessions

World Notes SOUTH KOREA
Breaking a Promise

World Notes SOVIET UNION
Revolt of the Scientists


The Biggest Spill in U.S. History (Environment)
A tanker hits an Alaskan reef, leaving an eight-mile oil slick


One Womb to Another (Medicine)
A historic fetal-cell transplant may have saved a boy's life


The Sad Ordeal of Mr. Baseball
Pete Rose faces gambling charges -- and a threatened legacy


Putting The Finger on Security
Biometrics could make keys and combination locks obsolete


Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 133 No. 14 APRIL 3, 1989

Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 133 No. 14 APRIL 3, 1989

Business Notes ADVERTISING
Bad Day for A Behemoth

Business Notes BUBBLE-GUM CARDS
A Dither over The Dirty Ones

Business Notes MINIMUM WAGE
How Much Is Just Enough?

Business Notes TRIALS
Sorry, We Can't Decide

Don't Mess Around with Jim Small farmers love him, but pesticide makers think he's poison

Reach Out And Rob Someone
Scam artists who work the phones are bilking consumers of $1 billion or more a year

Step on The Gas, Pay the Price
As the U.S. gulps more oil and discovers less, imports take off

The Quiet Little Dutch Invader
Fokker's new jetliner scores a $3 billion sale in the U.S.


Foul!
How the national obsession with winning and moneymaking is turning big-time college sports into an educational scandal that, for too many players, leads down a one-way path to broken dreams

Playing To Win in Vegas


A Boost for Drug Testing
The Supreme Court upholds screening employees in the lab


Critics' Choice (Critics' Choice)

Doing Things His Way (Books)

Going Beyond Brand Names (Books)
Some superb new mysteries from lesser-known writers

Raw Talk, but Cooked Painting (Art)
A show surveys innovation and tradition in 20th century Italy

Star Wars at the Networks (Video)
With a premium on news programming, the aim is charisma

The Message Is the Message (Books)


An Original American In Paris (Profile)
PATRICK KELLY, Mississippi's smash hit in the tough world of high fashion, prefers to think of himself as a "black male Lucille Ball"


From the Publisher (From The Publisher)


Middle-Class Blacks


The N.R.A. in A Hunter's Sights