American Notes CALIFORNIA
A $648,000 Typist

American Notes ILLINOIS
A Crash Course In Drug Testing

American Notes NEW YORK
Home, Toward Disaster

American Notes THE CENSUS
They Count By Night

Building a "Big Tent" Around Abortion

China Breach
Congress sets the tone for an election year with a bruising -- and losing -- challenge to the President's foreign policy. So much for bipartisanship

Highly Public Prosecutors
In Miami and Washington, big cases mean big headlines

Run, Barry, Run
While Washington's indicted mayor takes a cure in Florida, who inherits the mess he left behind?

Thanks, But No Tanks
Now that the Berlin Wall is open, the U.S. Army plays war a little differently

The Presidency
Totaling Up Year One


Around the Bloc

Cautious Architect of a Cloudy Future
Faced with the challenge of bringing racial harmony to his country, State President F.W. de Klerk seeks a middle path that will satisfy blacks without alienating whites

At the Crossroads
Nelson Mandela may soon be free, but is South Africa ready -- or able -- to take the road to a nonracial democratic society?

Eyewitness To Hatred
Fresh from the heart of the conflict, a Soviet official tells how both sides try to exterminate each other

Haiti Deja Vu, All Over Again
Avril's crackdown brings back the bad old days

Sanctions: What Spells Success?

South Asia Slaughter Up North
Violence in Kashmir pits India against Pakistan

Soviet Union Occupational Disease
As Azerbaijan threatens to turn into another Afghanistan, Gorbachev discovers that the price of suppression may be his cherished reforms

World Notes EAST GERMANY
New Leash On Life

World Notes HISTORY
The End Of the Affair

World Notes HONG KONG
Whittling Down Democracy

World Notes SOUTH KOREA
Roh Clears Up The Confusion


Japan Goes to the Moon (Space)
A late space program takes off -- and bears watching

Promotion to The Highest Level (Environment)
The pollution fighters will gain the clout of Cabinet status


How To Pig Out (Health)
But Avoid Fat Foodmakers try to take some of the worry out of eating treats


A New Daily for Sports Nuts
The National gambles on insatiable -- and literate -- fans


Super Bowl Field of Dreams
An interview with a grilled snapper, and other wonderments


Could They Hit Air Force One?
The President's plane is well guarded by electronic gear


Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 135, No. 6 FEBRUARY 5, 1990

Bear Scare
Rising global interest rates spook Wall Street and squeeze the U.S. economy

Business Notes ACCIDENTS
Haunted by A Gas Cloud

Business Notes REAL ESTATE
Will a Needle Take the Title?

Business Notes RESEARCH
Chips Across The Atlantic

Business Notes SEAFOOD
Vacations for Crustaceans?

Business Notes TOURISM
( Club Med It Isn't

Mad Dog's Tales

Moscow's Big Mak Attack
The golden arches rise over Pushkin Square

Who Wants to Wait for HDTV?
Viewers are building home theaters from the latest gear at hand


A Priest of the Movie Faith (Cinema)

Dimming Shakespeare's Glories (Theater)
Briton Kenneth Branagh bows in Los Angeles, with mixed results

Gotcha! (Books)

Rushes (Cinema)

The San Francisco Rebellion (Art)
An exhibit shows how young artists rejected a whole ethos

The Tax Collector Gets Audited (Books)

Too Blue (Books)

Yo! Rap Gets on the Map (Music)
Led by groups like Public Enemy, it socks a black message to the mainstream


Using Rage to Fight the Plague (Interview)
AIDS activist, and now victim LARRY KRAMER blasts away at the Government, the medical establishment and the Catholic Church


From the Publisher (From The Publisher)


Education: Doing Bad and Feeling Good