Time Magazine Contents Page

COVER STORY

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WORLD: Was It Worth a War?

Saddam Hussein still defies the world, and Kuwait is rushing back to the past. But there are halting steps toward a Mideast peace conference

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NATION: A Special Relationship

Bush and Gorbachev are using their personal rapport to smooth a superpower rapprochement

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BUSINESS: B.C.C.I. Heats Up

Governments scurry to control the global banking scandal

HEALTH What? What? I can't hear you 50

MEDICINE Why doctors are angry at Bush 52

SCIENCE How some radio pulses may reveal a planet 53

PRESS The new nattering nabobs: Do media bashers really count?

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HISTORY The new Civil Rights Museum: Is it real or is it Memorex?

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BOOKS James McClure's latest yarn of South African mystery

The passing of the spinner of East European Jewish tales 58

RELIGION Repent or not; the era of the superchurch is at hand

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SHOW BUSINESS John Sayles is a man for all media 64

CINEMA The summer heroine: fierce and sinewy, but the same old babe 66

$ ESSAY Charles Krauthammer bids arms control a not-too-fond farewell 68

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 8 CRITICS' VOICES 14

MILESTONES 61 PEOPLE 65

COVER Photomontage. Kuwait's burning oil fields by Christopher Morris -- Black Star for TIME; Saddam Hussein by Susan May Tell -- SABA