April 30, 1990 | Vol. 135 No. 18

Adoption: Putting Kids On Display (American Notes)

Putting Kids On Display

Drugs: X Marks The Spot (American Notes)

X Marks The Spot

Monuments: A Tower of Hot Air (American Notes)

A Tower of Hot Air

New York: Mistaken Identity (American Notes)

Mistaken Identity

Games Captors Play

Amid power struggles and delays, a hostage is finally released

Grapevine: Apr. 30, 1990 (Grapevine)

Grapevine: Apr. 30, 1990 (Grapevine)

Grapevine: Apr. 30, 1990 (Grapevine)

Grapevine: Apr. 30, 1990 (Grapevine)

Grapevine: Apr. 30, 1990 (Grapevine)

Grapevine: Apr. 30, 1990 (Grapevine)

How Green Is My Record (Grapevine)

Crashers at the Earth Day Party

Loser of the Week: Apr. 30, 1990 (Grapevine)

Outrage of the Week (Grapevine)

The Jesse Helms Marketing Strategy (Grapevine)

The Presidency: The Noncampaign of '92

The Noncampaign of '92

The with-Friends-Like-These Trophy (Grapevine)

Up From The Streets: Carl S. Taylor

Instead of dying out, Detroit gangs have been reborn as criminal empires

Walleye War

Indians and sportsmen clash over fishing rights

Winner of the Week (Grapevine)

Vietnam: It's Time to Heal the Wounds (Vietnam)

Vietnam: A War on Poverty (Vietnam)

Finally at peace, Vietnam is struggling to open up its economy and close the gap between the backward North and bustling South

America Abroad: Defusing Baghdad's Bomb

Defusing Baghdad's Bomb

Central America The Boys Step into Line

Step into Line On the eve of her inauguration, Chamorro brokers a cease-fire between the contras and the Sandinistas -- but will it stick?

Vietnam: Hout Seng's Long March (Vietnam)

Persecution Repression's Hall of Shame

Nelson Mandela notwithstanding, political prisoners still languish in cells decades after their arrests

Soviet Union Running Out Of Gas?

As Gorbachev lays siege to Lithuania, the republic begins to debate the wisdom of its dash to independence

Vietnam: Still A Killing Field (Vietnam)

Cambodia remains a pawn in the regional power game -- and the slaughter continues

Vietnam 15 Years Later (Vietnam)

Guilt and recrimination still shroud America's perceptions of the only war it ever lost

Why The Western Powers Are Right to Tread Carefully

With East-West relations at stake, Lithuania is not worth a fight

Eastern Europe: Send in the (Peace) Corps! (World Notes)

Send in the (Peace) Corps!

Israel: The Territorial Imperative (World Notes)

The Territorial Imperative

Names: Equal Ethnic Billing (World Notes)

Equal Ethnic Billing

South Africa: A Zephyr Of Change (World Notes)

A Zephyr Of Change

Soviet Union: Biting Back At Watchdogs (World Notes)

Biting Back At Watchdogs

Environment: A Sizzling Scientific Debate (Environment)

Skeptics claim that the evidence for global warming is not so hot

Medicine: DNA and The Desire to Drink (Medicine)

Researchers discover a gene at the root of alcoholism

Medicine: It's A Girl! (Medicine)

Picking an embryo's sex prevents the inheritance of some diseases

Medicine: Pain-Killer Alert (Medicine)

Taking too much ibuprofen for too long can lead to kidney failure

Hogan's Alley, Virginia Crime Is This Town's Job (American Scene)

Is This Town's Job But the good guys always get their man

Press: When Cultures Clash

Tribal warfare roils National Geographic

Design: A Cult Hero Gets His Due (Design)

The bold, austere architecture of Italy's Aldo Rossi wins the prestigious Pritzker Prize

Technology: L.A.'s High-Watt Highway

Electric cars get a boost in the capital of smog

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Vol. 135 No. 18 APRIL 30, 1990