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CHRONICLES 21

MILESTONES 26

WHITEWATER: The Scandal Comes Home Again 28

The special counsel delivers a blizzard of subpoenas

POLITICS: First Aid for Rostenkowski 31

A point man on health care faces a tough primary

The Senate: Majority leader Mitchell abruptly calls it quits

THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Posturing over Crime 32

Its popular elements are emotionally appealing but ineffective

TERRORISM: Doubts and Convictions 33

After five months, guilty verdicts in the Tower bombing case

HEALTH CARE: Queasy About Clinton's Plan 34

The polls turn sour as Congress starts work

CALIFORNIA: Still Shaking All Over 36

The last quake left the California psyche badly damaged

PUBLIC EYE: Full of Grace 37

Margaret Carlson on the travails of the Archbishop of Chicago

MIDDLE EAST: The Bloodied Peace Process 39

An angry wave of violence threatens to reward the extremists

Inside Hebron: Settlers who trumpet their presence

RUSSIA: The Big Bear Awakes 43

Moscow's neighbors fret over a post-Soviet empire

MEXICO: Good Deal 44

The Zapatistas win landmark changes

BOOK EXCERPT: The NEW New World Order 73

Henry Kissinger calls for less idealism, more pragmatism

ENVIRONMENT: Fear of Warming 79

Storm-related losses have insurers worried about climate changes

COVER: Rewriting the Book on Human Evolution 80

New dates for old fossils say humanity's ancestors left Africa almost a million years earlier than thought, and that modern people may have evolved in many parts of the world all at once

Neanderthals: They were brainy -- and maybe our forebears

BUSINESS: Wireless Wars 89

MCI and Nextel hook up to compete with AT&T in cellular phones

TECHNOLOGY: Beware, Uncle Sam Wants to Listen In 90

The feds battle the cypherpunks over computer privacy

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Dance: Mikhail Baryshnikov leaves ballet behind to conquer the modern world with his White Oak ensemble 92

Theater: Damn Yankees is back at bat 96

Music: The dark, Russo-Germanic world of Schnittke 100

Cinema: Four Weddings and a Funeral is almost too cute 101

Savage Nights: an AIDS victim on the wild side 103

The Coen brothers serve up a handsome but arid fable 104

Television: David Letterman is in his glory days 107

History: Tears for Schindler in Israel and Germany 110

PEOPLE 109

COVER: Photo illustration for TIME by Matt Mahurin