February 22, 1993 | Vol. 141 No. 8

A Call to Arms (Cover Stories)

If Clinton follows through on his plan to cut the deficit significantly, he must raise taxes $150 billion or so over the next four years. Here's how he hopes to do it.

Day of Reckoning (Cover Stories)

After weeks of confusion, Bill Clinton comes to impressive and even dangerous clarity on what he hopes to accomplish -- and the sacrifices it will require

Saving a Few Perks for a Rainy Day (Cover Stories)

Welfare for the Well-Off (Cover Stories)

America's comfortable classes may think Clinton is putting the squeeze on them, but he's barely touching billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks

What's in It for Us? (Cover Stories)

Voters in Ohio's Montgomery County want change, but the specter of higher taxes is making them squirm

Clip, Clip Here, Clip, Clip There (The Week: Nation)

Targeting the deficit, the President starts to define shared sacrifice

If At First . . . (The Week: Nation)

Clinton tries, tries again to pick an Attorney General

Next for the Cia: Business Spying? (Espionage)

Snooping on foreign companies has become the most hotly debated topic in the U.S. intelligence community

Walsh Soldiers On (The Week: Nation)

The independent counsel lashes out against Bush and Reagan

Wanted Worldwide (The Week: Nation)

The man charged with murdering two CIA employees may be in Pakistan

War on The Potomac (The Week: Nation)

Powell rebuts Pentagon critics but seeks peace with the White House

I Can't Cry Anymore (Canada)

A bleak Labrador Indian community has become Suicide Village

Bomb Brigades (The Week World)

Now North Korea shuts its doors to international nuclear inspectors

Going Back (The Week World)

France's Mitterrand leads the West's return to Vietnam

Human Collateral (The Week World)

Baghdad offers to barter two captured Britons for cash

Mr. Clinton Pulls Up a Chair (The Week World)

The U.S. opts to join international peace talks rather than fight in Bosnia

The Big Scrub (The Week World)

Operation Clean Hands is rocking Italy's political foundations

The Guns Talk Too (Diplomacy)

Clinton accepts a peace plan he once rejected, but leaves open a military option

The Pope in Africa (The Week World)

Deadly Science (Nature)

A sudden and fatal eruption in Colombia shows again that volcanology is tragically imprecise

Is It Live or Is It Cybernetic?

The New Field of Complexity

May Explain Mysteries From the Stock Market to the Emergence of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything

Aids It Ain't (The Week Health & Science)

A frightening immune disorder turns out to be rare and noncontagious

Choosing Death (The Week Health & Science)

A new Dutch law makes euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide easier

Helpful H-Bomb (The Week Health & Science)

A Chinese nuclear test reveals a subterranean continent

Opening The Border to AIDS (Health)

Clinton's plan to welcome infected foreigners may be medically justifiable, but it's politically explosive

Pounds Of Prevention (The Week Health & Science)

The Clintons promote childhood vaccinations -- and blast drugmakers

Unspeakable: Rape and War (Behavior)

Is rape an inevitable -- and marginal -- part of war? Bosnia opens a terrible new perspective. It shows rape as policy to scorch the enemy's emotional earth.

Where NBC Went Wrong

The network suffers a humiliating bout of confessions and soul-searching after admitting it rigged the crash-and-burn of a GM truck

Hazards Aloft

Could a CD player, a laptop computer or a hand-held video game send an airliner off course?

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February 22, 1993 Volume 141 No. 8

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