American Notes DETROIT Derailed by Success

American Notes ECOLOGY
U-Turn on Ozone

American Notes ILLINOIS
A Brutal Ransom Game

American Notes OHIO
Disaster Along The Wegee

American Notes SURGERY
Nose Jobs and The Navy

An Interview with Mandela

Another Winner of the Week (Grapevine)

Bye-Bye, Barry
Washington's embattled mayor calls it quits

Does
De Klerk Deserve a Break? No, but Mandela could strengthen his campaign to end apartheid by endorsing a gradual easing of sanctions

Grapevine (Grapevine)

Grapevine (Grapevine)

Grapevine (Grapevine)

Grapevine (Grapevine)

Grapevine (Grapevine)

Hiding in The Flag
Washington has more important things to do than posture about Old Glory

The Baby-It's-Cold-Outside Sympathy Card (Grapevine)

The Barefoot-and-Pregnant Sensitivity Palm (Grapevine)

The Burden of Being a Superstar
Leaving a host of problems at home, Nelson Mandela is coming to the U.S. in search of money and renewed pressure on South Africa

The Great Cartoon Cash-In (Grapevine)

The Presidency
His Failure Was Political

The Rap Against a Rap Group
Anti-obscenity campaigners are getting as nasty as they wanna be against raunchy music, but will juries go along?

Who's In Charge Here?
A supertanker fire off Texas shows how the U.S. remains ill-prepared for fighting oil spills

Winner of the Week (Grapevine)


Canada So What's the Problem, Eh?
The country's French-English identity -- and possibly its unity -- is at stake as a deadline looms for the Meech Lake accord

Coming: Bolshoi Panty Hose

Islam Ballots for Allah
An unexpected fundamentalist triumph in Algeria sends a shiver through the Arab world and beyond. Is the fear justified?

Middle East Call Us -- We Won't Call
You As a right-wing government takes power in Jerusalem, the U.S. and Israel trade phone numbers -- and the sharpest gibes yet

Soviet Union And the Breadwinner Is . . . . . . Mikhail Gorbachev, who reclaims the initiative by acknowledging that half a loaf is better than none

The Balkans Wild in the Streets
In Romania and Bulgaria, the game has changed but the players are still former Communists, leaving some spectators unhappy

The Man Who Can't Say Yes

World Notes ITALY
Showdown in Doge City

World Notes PERU
On Second Thought . . .

World Notes SRI LANKA
Playing Cops And Killers

World Notes TERRORISM
Out of the Woodwork


Artist with a 20-Lb. Saw (Environment)

Owl vs Man (Environment)
In the Northwest's battle over logging, jobs are at stake, but so are irreplaceable ancient forests

Terrorist in A White Collar (Environment)


Greensboro, North Carolina The Legacy of Segregation (American Scene)
A bellwether city battles a hardening color line

Medical Progress -- Live! On CNN! (Ethics)
An experimental AIDS treatment tests the judgment of journalists


Reworking The First Act
After a high-stakes launch, E.W. encounters "creative differences"


Holy War Ends
The Southern Baptists choose a Fundamentalist future

To Hell with Choice
A Cardinal turns excommunication into a political weapon


An Old-Timer for All Seasons
For Nolan Ryan, 43, it's no hits, no runs -- and no peers


Those Computers Are Dummies (Ideas)
A physicist's attack riles artificial-intelligence researchers

Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 135, No. 26 JUNE 25, 1990

Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 135, No. 26 JUNE 25, 1990

A Food Giant's Big Appetite
From farm to freezer, ConAgra makes its mark

Business Notes AIRLINES
Haute Cuisine At Low Altitude

Business Notes AUTOS
Top Down, Hopes Up

Business Notes COMMUNICATIONS
A Page from The Comics

Business Notes
DEBT Donald the Deadbeat

Business Notes SECURITIES /
Stock Around The Clock

Good Ole Bad Boy
A Texas S&L tycoon is indicted, but how many others will the U.S. nab?

How Green Is My Label

One Big Mac, Hold the Box!
McDonald's faces a children's crusade against polystyrene

Ring 'Em Up, Ship 'Em Out
U.S. companies, becalmed at home, register record sales abroad


Con Game (Theater)

Focal Points (Books)

In Search of Eddie Murphy (Cinema)
The gifts that made him a star have disappeared into self-parody

Iron Lady (Books)

Is A Populist Revolt at Hand? (Books)
By PRISCILLA PAINTON

Mud Pie Eaters (Books)

Why Spy? (Books)


Lanes into The Past (Travel)
A TIME correspondent's guide to Eastern Europe: Don't expect nouvelle cuisine


Driving (Interview)
Toward Unity Sensitive to his country's history, Chancellor HELMUT KOHL warns against isolating Germans and argues that unification is not only urgent but will make the '90s the decade of Europe


From the Publisher (From The Publisher)


Aids: Getting More Than Its Share?