October 15, 1990 | Vol. 136 No. 16

1,000 Points of Spite

Wrangling over the budget forces the government to shut down, at least for a while

Elections: Doubling Up On Duke (American Notes)

Doubling Up On Duke

Hunting: They Still Shoot Bison (American Notes)

They Still Shoot Bison

New York: Excavating Baseball (American Notes)

Excavating Baseball

Prejudice: Ivy League Outcry (American Notes)

Ivy League Outcry

Trials: Pictures in An Exhibition (American Notes)

Pictures in An Exhibition

An Olympic Cola Contest (Grapevine)

All Shook Up

Take the fear of war, add the fecklessness of America's politicians, and what you get looks more and more like a painful global slump

Excuse of the Week (Grapevine)

Footnotes From the Front (Grapevine)

An off-beat briefing on the Persian Gulf crisis

Fuels From The Crypt (Grapevine)

Dick Darman: Man in The Muddle

Dick Darman helped create the budget mess, but he can't find a way to solve it

Phil Donahue He's Not (Grapevine)

Spokeswoman of the Week (Grapevine)

St. Jude Medal Presentation (Grapevine)

This Is the Thanks We Get? (Grapevine)

Who Deserves the Blame?

Yesterday's Hero Citation (Grapevine)

Diplomacy Ode to a New Day

With Germany united and a conventional arms-control agreement in hand, East and West begin a different kind of collective security

India Fatal Fires of Protest

Why Singh's decision to improve the lot of lower-caste members has driven so many Indians to commit suicide

China: Deadly Bouquet (World Notes)

Deadly Bouquet

Pakistan: Her Day In Court (World Notes)

Her Day In Court

Poland: Into the Ring (World Notes)

Into the Ring

The Philippines: Mutiny in Mindanao (World Notes)

Mutiny in Mindanao

The Gulf: America Abroad: Resisting the Gangbusters Option (The Gulf)

Resisting the Gangbusters Option

The Gulf: Arafat's Dangerous Ploy (The Gulf)

The Gulf: Dance While You Can (The Gulf)

Baghdad takes on a surreal haze as Iraqis muse about Saddam's fate and hostages party with diplomats into the night

The Gulf: Saddam Hussein as the Lesser of Two Evils (The Gulf)

Even among Arabs who condemn him, many consider the foreign presence in the gulf a greater abomination

The Gulf: The Desert Bear (The Gulf)

The Gulf: The Waiting Game (The Gulf)

To hold together the coalition against Saddam, George Bush and his many allies are discovering that they must bend a little here and there

Ethics: Voters Vs. The Negative Nineties (Ethics)

What to do when campaigns are as nasty as a David Lynch film

Living: What Price Love? (Living)

Read Carefully Before tying the knot, couples are signing on the dotted line

Press: A Muchness of Maleness

With a host of new entries joining a shrinking magazine field, which of them will be enticing enough to survive?

Religion: No Longer Godless Communism

As the Soviet Union restores freedom of religion, believers face opportunities, scarcities and an upwelling of sectarian strife

Sport: They Use Bathrobes

Sport: Trouble in The Locker Rooms

More women reporters face hostility that threatens their access

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