Time Magazine Contents Page

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COVER: The Electronic Superhighway

The merger of video, telephones and computers is creating the most important new medium since television. It's not here yet, but it's coming faster than you might think.

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Comes the Revolution

What we'll be watching

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THE SUMMIT: The Alms Race

Cash is nice for Russia, but it won't buy reform

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The Political Interest: Send us your students

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DEFENSE: Resentment in the Ranks

Clinton fights a battle to win the military's respect

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EGYPT: Militants on the Nile

In a TIME interview, Mubarak blames the trouble on Iran

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THE BALKANS: Flight of Terror

A tale of Muslim refugees dying in a stampede

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EUROPE: Continental Shift

France's elections signal the last act for socialism

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BUSINESS: The Big Fraud

In a Manhattan courtroom, the dissection of B.C.C.I. begins

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CITIES: The Legacy of the 1968 Riots

A Washington family wins a struggle to save its home

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LAW: Give Us Back Our Baby

A wrenching custody fight alarms many adoptive parents

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SOCIETY: Woody and Mia Square Off in Court

How many ways can an unhappy family be unhappy?

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SPORT: Is This Baseball's Last Great Year?

Players, owners -- even fans -- face troubling changes

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ART: A Sublime Titian Show

Paris celebrates the Venetian titan and his age

REVIEWS

THEATER Juliet Stevenson's U.S. debut is triumphant 71

Julie Andrews is back onstage after 32 years 71

MUSIC Depeche Mode shows a little faith 74

Dolly Parton sings of sex and salvation 76

TELEVISIONA A tabloid tale redone as acid black comedy 76

BOOKS Kaye Gibbons celebrates North Carolina women 77

DEPARTMENTS

PUBLISHER'S LETTER 4

LETTERS 6

GRAPEVINE 15

MILESTONES 25

PEOPLE 81

ESSAY 84

COVER: Computer-altered photo collage. Eye from Comstock Inc. Star Trek by Henry Gris -- FPG; credit cards by Robert Kristofik -- The Image Bank; Bernard Shaw courtesy CNN; travel by Paul Nehrenz -- The Image Bank; music by John Endress -- The Stock Market; Gone With the Wind from Photofest; The Crying Game courtesy Miramax Films; boxing by Neil Leifer; Arthur's Teacher Trouble courtesy Broderbund Software; VideoPhone courtesy AT&T; still-life photos by James Keyser.