July 9, 1990 | Vol. 136 No. 2

Marion Barry: I Guess You All Figured That I Couldn't Resist That Lady

A videotape shows D.C.'s mayor wasn't interested in crack until his ex-lover spurned his advances. Then the FBI burst in

A Message for Tokyo

Aviation: Found: the Lost Dirigible (American Notes)

Found: the Lost Dirigible

Broadcasting: Saying Yes To Minorities (American Notes)

Saying Yes To Minorities

Congress: Bed Check for The Senate (American Notes)

Bed Check for The Senate

Memorials: A Monument to F.D.R. (American Notes)

A Monument to F.D.R.

Boop, Beep, Blurp, Jingle, Jingle (Grapevine)

Abortion's Hardest Cases: In the Supreme Court and in Louisiana

Should parents have a say in a teenager's decision to end her pregnancy? Do rape victims have special rights? In the Supreme Court and in Louisiana, the abortion battle lines are redefined

Bush: Eating His Words

Cornered by the deficit, Bush proclaims his own brand of "thinking anew" and signs on to the T word. But who will be paying what?

Endangered List of Endangered Species (Grapevine)

Forgotten Daughter of the Week (Grapevine)

Hold The Phone (Grapevine)

California: In The Blazing Eye of the Inferno

As one of the worst fires in California history destroys more than 500 homes and causes $500 million in damage, a TIME contributor watches his house turn into a gutted skeleton -- and then narrowly es

Long Trials, Long Trail (Grapevine)

The Fox-in-the-Chicken-Coop Trophy (Grapevine)

The Go-Between (Grapevine)

The Justice in the Middle

For both sides in the abortion debate, O'Connor is a moving target

Winner of the Week (Grapevine)

Germany: We Are All Talking More (Germany)

Amid euphoria and apprehension, a school asks for a new name and gears up for a changing curriculum

Germany: A New Look - Once Again (Germany)

Germany: Ambivalence Amid Plenty (Germany)

The horror of the past is ever present for the minuscule Jewish community

America Abroad: This Too Shall Pass

This Too Shall Pass

Germany: And Now for Sprachvergnugen (Germany)

A TIME correspondent muses about a much maligned language that suddenly many feel they should learn

Germany: Angry At The World (Germany)

Germany: But Don't Hold Your Breath (Germany)

Canada Designing The Future

Now that the Meech Lake accord is dead, what kind of structure will satisfy French Quebec and English Canada in the 21st century?

Germany: Compromised by a Gigantic Lie (Germany)

When a hesitant East Germany decides the fate of its former rulers, who should do the judging?

Germany: Down Memory Lane (Germany)

For the class of '56, no high points and no heroes, but pride in having built a sturdy democracy and belonging to the European family

Germany: Freedom Fling (Germany)

The East German press is dying while being reborn

Germany Toward Unity (Germany)

Germany: Getting The Lion's Share (Germany)

Iran The Politics of Humanitarianism

Looking Around for Ideas

Robert Bourassa ponders what Quebec should do next

Germany: Pet Peeve (Germany)

Germany: Rap It Up (Germany)

Germany: Right Face (Germany)

Germany: Rigmarole (Germany)

Germany: Shopping Hell (Germany)

For lots of weary consumers, the labors of Tantalus

Space: Cloudy Vistas for Big Science

NASA's shuttle hopes spring a leak, and Hubble has eye trouble

Germany: Stagestruck (Germany)

Germany: String Along (Germany)

Germany: Take That! (Germany)

Germany: The Big Merger (Germany)

Nothing like this instant melding of two fundamentally disparate economies has ever happened before, anywhere

Germany: The Oh So Good Life (Germany)

A society turns its restless energies to the cultivation of leisure

Germany: The Power to Shock (Germany)

On a heavily subsidized stage, a Walpurgisnacht of excess -- and an enduring courage to confront uncomfortable issues

Germany: Whose House Is This Anyway? (Germany)

Questions of ownership and tenants' rights in the East are likely to dominate the political discussion

China: Saving Face All Around (World Notes)

Saving Face All Around

Soviet Union: Let's Make A Deal (World Notes)

Let's Make A Deal

The Philippines: Farewell to the Peace Corps (World Notes)

Farewell to the Peace Corps

West Germany: The Wages Of Death (World Notes)

The Wages Of Death

Zambia: Cornmeal and Democracy (World Notes)

Cornmeal and Democracy

Environment: Letting The Earth Breathe Easier (Environment)

At last, progress is made on ozone, offshore drilling -- and more

Environment: No Peace for the Owl (Environment)

Press: The Tuned-Out Generation

A new survey reveals that young people are ignoring the news

Religion: Drawing The Line on Dissent

No more attacks on official teaching, the Pope tells scholars

Religion: Gay Rabbis

Toppling an ancient tradition

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