COVER

NATION

BETRAYED BY HIS KISSES (The Senate)

PACKWOOD'S FINAL HOURS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT HOW THE MOUNTING ANGER OF HIS COLLEAGUES ENDED HIS 27-YEAR CAREER

SMALL ANTS, TALL TALES (Congress)

THE REPUBLICANS ARE WIELDING DUBIOUS PERSONAL ANECDOTES IN THEIR WAR AGAINST FEDERAL REGULATIONS

TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Weapons)

FRANCE'S NUCLEAR TEST CAUSES TAHITIAN RIOTS AND BRINGS GLOBAL CONDEMNATION

WORLD

WAR & TERRORISM

MORE TALKING, MORE BOMBING (The Balkans)

DESPITE DIPLOMATIC PROGRESS, THE SERBS REMAIN DEFIANT, AND THE ALLIES DEBATE EXPANDING THE AIR ATTACKS

SCIENCE

WHEN LIFE NEARLY DIED

RESEARCHERS LINK EARTH'S GREATEST MASS EXTINCTION TO SIBERIAN VOLCANOES THAT ERUPTED FOR A MILLION YEARS

HEALTH & MEDICINE

DOUBLE-DUTY DRUGS (Medicine)

APPROVED MEDICATIONS ARE BEING WIDELY PRESCRIBED FOR UNAPPROVED USES

SOCIETY

SPIRIT OF SISTERHOOD (Women's Rights)

DESPITE THE HOSTS' SURLINESS, DELEGATES PRAISE THE U.N. WOMEN'S CONFERENCE

SPORT

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

BUSINESS

NO PASSAGE TO INDIA

AMERICAN FIRMS FACE AN ANTIFOREIGN BACKLASH IN THE WORLD'S LARGEST DEMOCRACY

LAW

IS THE END NIGH? (Justice)

ALL SIDES TAKE LUMPS AS THE O.J. CASE WENDS ITS WAY TOWARD THE JURY

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

CINEMA: QUEL DRAG! (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)

SPANGLES AND SOAPSUDS IN THE CROSS-DRESSING TO WONG FOO

MISS AMERICA: DREAM GIRLS (The Arts & Media / SHOW BUSINESS)

AT 75, THE MISS AMERICA PAGEANT SELLS AN IMAGE OF YOUNG WOMANHOOD THAT IS RETRO AND MODERN, HOPELESSLY UNCOOL--AND FOR ALL THAT, WE LOVE IT

ART: CAMPING UNDER GLASS (The Arts & Media / ART)

THE GHOST OF FLORINE STETTHEIMER, REMOTE AND GLITTERING, EVOKES A PERIOD BETWEEN THE WARS IN A NEW SHOW AT THE WHITNEY

BOOKS: COLD WAR CONFIDENTIAL (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)

ANATOLY DOBRYNIN, THE U.S.S.R.'S MAN IN WASHINGTON FOR A QUARTER-CENTURY, SPILLS SOME COLD-WAR SECRETS IN HIS MEMOIRS

MUSIC: SAX CHAMP (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)

REDISCOVERING THE WORK OF JAZZ PIONEER JOHN COLTRANE

MUSIC: OLD SMOOTHY (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)

D'ANGELO BRINGS THE POP-SOUL SOUNDS OF THE '70S UP TO DATE

PEOPLE