A Cowpoke for Governor?
Clayton Williams' folksy campaign catches on with Texas voters

A Jolt for Richards

American Notes AVIATION | Bye-Bye Blackbird

American Notes POLLUTION
Another Spill In Arthur Kill

American Notes POSTAGE
Up, Up and Away

American Notes TRANSPORTATION
Passing the Buck -- Again

American Notes VERMONT
Love It Or Leave It

Can The Right Survive Success?
For triumphant conservatives, the post-Reagan dilemma is what to do for an encore ^

Grapevine the Millionaires Club: Take the Money and Run

Lady Power in the Sunbelt
The most potent triple play in San Diego is O'Connor to Copley to Kroc

The Political Interest
The Vision Is in the Details


Hungary Hot Export: Campaign U As Hungary preps for its elections, U.S. political operatives are flocking to Budapest and proving that good intentions are not enough

Middle East Four Steps to Peace
But Israel's Shamir, riled by the heat he is getting from Bush and Baker, is balking at the first one

Nicaragua You First -- No, You First
The contras and the Sandinistas resist demobilization, saddling President-elect Chamorro with two unyielding armies

Politics Stops at the Border

Romania The Blackest Town In the World
For miles and miles, every thing and creature in his once green valley is veiled in soot

The Germanys Modrow's Last Hours in Power
In another day, the East German Prime Minister might have been hailed as a Gorbachev. But who said history was fair?

Where's The Fire?
Lots of smoke but little action on releasing the hostages

World Notes BRITAIN
Revolt over A Poll Tax

World Notes HAITI
Sweating Out A Goodbye

World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
Trouble in The Homelands

World Notes SOVIET UNION
Please Pay on Your Way Out

World Notes SPAIN
What's Next? Call Waiting?


Bye-Bye, Tofu; Hello, Truffles! (Food)
Organic cuisine is making an upscale comeback

Death on The Basketball Court (Medicine)
An athlete's fatal game raises some agonizing questions

Truth In Peanut Butter (Food)


Love and Let Die (Ethics)
In an era of untamed medical technology, how are patients and families to decide whether to halt treatment -- or even to help death along?

To My Family, My Physician, My Lawyer and All Others Whom It May Concern: (Ethics)
Death is as much a reality as birth, growth and aging -- it is the one certainty of life. In anticipation of decisions that may have to be made about my own dying and as an expression of my right to r


No Sympathy for the Devil
A Cardinal decries satanic influence


Three Strikes, You're Out
With talks deadlocked, baseball's opening day is in jeopardy


Getting Out and Mixing It Up in the Rialto (Design)
A rich show traces a century and a half of American graphics, including back-to-the-future revelations


Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 135 No. 12 MARCH 19, 1990

Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 135 No. 12 MARCH 19, 1990

Business Notes JOINT VENTURES
Courtship of Giants

Business Notes MARKETING
A Coke by Any Other Name . . .

Business Notes PUBLISHING
Malcolm's Last Gift

Business Notes SHAREHOLDERS
Score One for The Gadfly

Business Notes WALL STREET
Membership Has Its Woes

Ciao, Leo! A New Master at MGM +

The Little Hitmakers
Tiny Miramax Films sure knows how to pick winners

The Profits Of Doom
Drexel, Campeau sat on a wall. They and others had a great fall. But for experts in bankruptcy and picking up the pieces, business is booming


Creatures That Slither and Froth (Books)

In The Nick (Cinema)

Magic Powers (Books)

Need For Faces (Books)

Nomad Routes (Books)

On The Road (Cinema)

Quixotic Quest (Books)

The Battle over Classroom TV (Video)
Two newscasts, one with ads and one without, aim for teens

The Hunk from Red October (Show Business)
Stardom is one role the versatile Alec Baldwin can't disappear in


Arabia's Magic Kingdom (Travel)
Ending its isolation, Oman welcomes tourists -- rich ones


From Submission To Revolution (Interview)
Molecular biologist JENS REICH helped found New Forum, the movement that hastened communism's collapse in East Germany. With unification imminent, he is worried that the East will be overwhelmed by th

This Coach Stalks Overdogs (Profile)
Princeton hoops coach PETE CARRIL teaches his players how to beat the bigger guys with perfection, passion, constant flow and, yes, with principle


From the Publisher (From The Publisher)


Trashing Mount Sinai