NATION
A Tapestry of Prairie Life
In Greenfield, Iowa, the Sidey family paper celebrates its centennial. Can rural culture -- and the values it nourishes for America -- survive another century?
Florida: Cruelty in the Magic Kingdom (American Notes)
Notes FLORIDA Cruelty in the Magic Kingdom
Hurricanes: Picking Up The Pieces (American Notes)
Notes HURRICANES Picking Up The Pieces
Los Angeles: First-Class Felony (American Notes)
Notes LOS ANGELES First-Class Felony
Oklahoma: Not a Murder, A Mistake (American Notes)
Notes OKLAHOMA Not a Murder, A Mistake
Bill Me Later
Once again, Washington chooses voodoo economics over responsibility
Guerrilla Drug Trials: The Underground Test Of Compound Q (American Ideas)
Desperate activists try to speed up the discovery of a cure for AIDS
Reading the Fine Print
Those sweeping arms proposals are not all they seem
The Secret in the Stacks
How the Library of Congress hid Pentagon spending
WORLD
America: Abroad The Debacle Deepens
Abroad The Debacle Deepens
Books:Back With The Wind Mon Dieu! Has Scarlett O'Hara gone Continental?
Back With The Wind Mon Dieu! Has Scarlett O'Hara gone Continental?
China: The Making of Deng's Successor
The Making of Deng's Successor Jiang Zemin emerges as the front runner, but the race isn't over yet
South Africa: Brother Against Brother
Brother Against Brother President F.W. de Klerk and his sibling Willem offer starkly different visions of their country's future
Southeast Asia Will It Ever End?
Will It Ever End? As Viet Nam's soldiers head home, three guerrilla armies, including the Khmer Rouge, gird for war in Cambodia
Soviet Union Letting Their People Go
Letting Their People Go A wave of emigration swamps the U.S. and buoys Israel
The Philippines: From Despot to Exile
From Despot to Exile In death as in life, Ferdinand Marcos stirs his homeland
EAST-WEST Cashing In On Promises (World Notes)
Notes EAST-WEST Cashing In On Promises
GREECE Verdict on The Trial (World Notes)
Notes GREECE Verdict on The Trial
LEBANON The Panes Of War (World Notes)
Notes LEBANON The Panes Of War
SOVIET UNION Murphy's Law In Moscow (World Notes)
Notes SOVIET UNION Murphy's Law In Moscow
YUGOSLAVIA Balkans Will Be Balkans (World Notes)
Balkans Will Be Balkans
SCIENCE
Environment: Carrot And (Environment)
Stick Spurring conservation with a prize and a police force
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Medicine: A Recount of AIDS Carriers (Medicine)
Recount of AIDS Carriers The epidemic may not be as widespread as once assumed
Medicine: Diuretic Dilemma Are water pills risky? (Medicine)
Dilemma Are water pills risky?
Health: Go Back to Butter (Health)
Go Back to Butter The less-cholesterol campaign is under fire, but not discredited
SOCIETY
Adoption: Are You My Mother? (Living)
Adoptees and birth parents move mountains to find one another
Adoption: The Baby Chase (Living / Cover Story)
No one ever said adoption was easy -- but as the market tightens and competition soars, options for parents are more intricate than ever
Adoption: Nobody's Children (Living)
In the world of adoption, where healthy white infants are hotly pursued, a burgeoning group of "special-needs" kids is left behind
PRESS
Press: Who Cares About Foreigners?
Cares About Foreigners? In death and disaster, where people live counts
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No. 15 OCTOBER 9, 1989 (Contents)
Vol. 134 No. 15 OCTOBER 9, 1989
Time Magazine Masthead Vol. 134 No. 15 OCTOBER 9, 1989 (Masthead)
Vol. 134 No. 15 OCTOBER 9, 1989
BUSINESS
AIRLINES Round Trip To Bankruptcy
Notes AIRLINES Round Trip To Bankruptcy
BEVERAGES Unhappy Hour For a Brewer
Notes BEVERAGES Unhappy Hour For a Brewer
ENTREPRENEURS Texas' Cosmic Dealmaker
Notes ENTREPRENEURS Texas' Cosmic Dealmaker
LOCAL ECONOMIES They Love Their Balloon
Notes LOCAL ECONOMIES They Love Their Balloon
THE DOLLAR This Time We Really Mean It
Notes THE DOLLAR This Time We Really Mean It
Money: Angles Listen Up, Tax Tinkerers: Let's Be Fair
Angles Listen Up, Tax Tinkerers: Let's Be Fair
Sorry, These Don't Fit
These Don't Fit
Special Report: Foreign Owners I Came, I Saw, I Blundered
I Came, I Saw, I Blundered For bosses from abroad, the U.S. is tougher than it looks
Special Report: Foreign Owners From Walkman To Showman
Sony pays $3.4 billion for a Hollywood studio as a crowning touch in its strategy of combining entertainment with electronics
EDUCATION
Education: Calling for An Overhaul
Overhaul Bush and the Governors agree on reform goals for the schools
Education: Some Key Bush Proposals:
How They're Doing
LAW
Law: Enter, Stage Right
Cast conservatively, the court returns for a busy new session
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Critics' Voices: Oct. 9, 1989 (Critics' Voices)
Video: Truth And Consequences (Video)
Video: TV News Goes Hollywood (Video)
Re-enactments are turning journalists into moviemakers
Show Business: Vanessa Ascending (Show Business)
The pre-eminent actress of her time returns to Broadway
Art: Velazquez's Binding Ethic (Art)
The genius of Spanish realism is seen in the U.S.
PEOPLE
Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah: Voice Of the Hizballah (Interview)
Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, elusive leader of the pro-Iranians holding hostages in Lebanon, talks of terror and money