April 1, 1991 | Vol. 137 No. 13

CRIME: Death on the Home Front (American Notes)

CRIME: Death on the Home Front

POLLUTION: Now They Tell Us! (American Notes)

POLLUTION: Now They Tell Us!

TRIALS: Be It Ever So Humble . . . (American Notes)

TRIALS: Be It Ever So Humble . . .

WEATHER: California Streamin' (American Notes)

WEATHER: California Streamin'

Back to The Beat

As an antidote to police abuses and street crime, many cities are sending cops into communities to protect, serve -- and often befriend -- local residents

Rough Justice: Police on Trial (Cover Stories)

After the outrage in Los Angeles, police find themselves on trial as Americans are worried that some officers may be going too far -- much too far -- in the midst of a brutal and brutalizing war

Here Come the Cubans, Part 2 (Grapevine)

Here Come the Cubans, Part 2

It's Just Not Genteel to Spit (Grapevine)

It's Just Not Genteel to Spit

Law And Disorder

For cops, fear and frustration are constants. Sometimes even the best of them snap under the pressure.

Murders They Wrote

Passion, envy and genius combine in a trio of true-life crime dramas that seem ready-made for TV

Stop Us Before We Vote Again (Grapevine)

Stop Us Before We Vote Again

The Common Man's Tax Cut

Rebuffed last fall, Moynihan revives his plan to reduce Social Security levies for middle- and lower-wage earners

The Drug Dog All-Star Squad (Grapevine)

The Drug Dog All-Star Squad

The G.O.P. Hit List (Grapevine)

The G.O.P. Hit List

The Political Interest Gates: The Buck Doesn't Stop Here

There's No Place Like Jail (Grapevine)

There's No Place Like Jail

White House To IRS: Hands Off The Rich (Grapevine)

White House To IRS: Hands Off The Rich

Britain Trimming Around the Edges

Major kills Thatcher's poll tax and changes the tone of policy, but her philosophy goes marching on

Foreign Aid: Good Intentions, Woeful Results

How an ambitious environmental program ended up damaging the tropical rain forests

In From The Cold

Iraq Getting Their Way

The Kurdish revolt shakes Saddam, contributing to his decision to form a new Cabinet, and raises the question, Does the country face a breakup?

Middle East: Does Land Still Buy Security?

A debate rages on whether Israel could safely return even a demilitarized Golan Heights to Syria

Military Strategy: How Moscow and Beijing Lost the War

The allied victory is a sobering lesson for the world's two largest armies. It may be a prohibitively costly one.

Soviet Union Gorbachev's Nightmare

What if Boris Yeltsin becomes the first elected president of the Russia republic, the biggest and wealthiest of them all?

Mexico City's Menacing Air (Environment)

The shutdown of a refinery will only begin to curb a toxic cloud

Thin Skins and Fraud at M.I.T.

A famed researcher backs away from a discredited paper

Forging A Shield Against AIDS (Medicine)

Vaccines are in the works, but how should they be tested and who should pay?

A Fresh Take on Fashion

Mirabella woos readers with an eclectic menu of offerings that mixes culture and business with women's other concerns

Bo Knows Pain -- and Dismissal

The best-known two-sport athlete in the U.S. is out for a year, and perhaps forever, because of a football injury

Academics In Opposition (Ideas)

Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)

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Upside Down in the Groves of Academe (Ideas)

In U.S. classrooms, battles are flaring over values that are almost a reverse image of the American mainstream. As a result, a new intolerance is on the rise.