February 11, 1991 | Vol. 137 No. 6

A Betty Grable For the '90s Betty Grable For the '90s (Grapevine)

A Burst of Firsts (Grapevine)

A Graduation Gift From Uncle Sam (Grapevine)

His Successor? Probably a Kinsman (Grapevine)

Is Saddam Cracking Up? (Grapevine)

Keeping Their Traits on Ice (Grapevine)

No Creeps Allowed In This Campaign (Grapevine)

Murder And Mayhem

Mayhem

South Africa: The Twilight Of Apartheid

De Klerk moves to sweep away the last legal pillars of racial inequality

Soviet Union: New World Order? Or Law And Order?

Reformers fear that a crackdown on street crime and business fraud heralds more repressive moves

CANADA: Take It or Leave It (World Notes)

CANADA: Take It or Leave It

ECONOMIES: Prescribing Shock Therapy (World Notes)

ECONOMIES: Prescribing Shock Therapy

GERMANY: Fall of The Mighty (World Notes)

GERMANY: Fall of The Mighty

SOMALIA: The Price Of Victory (World Notes)

SOMALIA: The Price Of Victory

America Abroad: The Villain's Advantage (The Gulf War)

The Villain's Advantage

Environment: Dead Sea in the Making (The Gulf War)

A fragile ecosystem brimming with life is headed for destruction

Iran: The Not So Innocent Bystander (The Gulf War)

By agreeing to park Iraq's planes, Tehran is positioning itself to play a stronger role in postwar gulf politics

Islam's Idea of Holy War (The Gulf War)

Leadership: The Man Behind A Demonic Image (The Gulf War)

To fathom the cruel complexities of Saddam, one must explore the world and the anger that shaped him

Strategy: Saddam's Deadly Trap (The Gulf War)

With his planes and troops outclassed, he is trying to score a political victory by luring the allies into bloody trench fighting

The Allies: Good Riddance To Arms (The Gulf War)

Why two economic superpowers, Germany and Japan, are such reluctant warriors

The Arsenal: Who Armed Baghdad (The Gulf War)

Almost every nation with weaponry to sell did, including America's allies. Even worse, the purchases were funded by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The Battlefront: Combat In the Sand (The Gulf War)

The allies repel Baghdad's attempt to start the ground war and claim supremacy in the air

The Home Front: Land That They Love (The Gulf War)

Patriotism and its symbols dominate the debate over the gulf war as both sides emphasize concern for the soldiers and for the fate of the nation

The Moral Debate: A Just Conflict, or Just a Conflict? (The Gulf War)

George Bush invokes a long-standing Christian doctrine to defend his military action against Saddam

The Presidency: George Was There (The Gulf War)

George Was There

The State of the Union: So Who's Minding The Store? (The Gulf War)

Bush gets big applause with his inspiring war rhetoric. But domestically, is he embracing deja voodoo economics all over again?

Lost In America (Behavior)

For Vietnam vets hunkered down in the jungles of Hawaii, the war never came to an end

How Dailies Cover a TV War

After a slow start, newspapers play catch-up with fresh angles, skeptical analysis and a blizzard of lively graphics

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