October 1, 1990 | Vol. 136 No. 14

A Postcard From the Edge (Grapevine)

Banking: Watch Out, Wall Street (American Notes)

Watch Out, Wall Street

Nevada: Strange Bedfellows (American Notes)

Strange Bedfellows

Sports: Winning the Gold (American Notes)

Winning the Gold

The Presidency: Mission to Moscow (American Notes)

Mission to Moscow

Washington: Just Saying No (American Notes)

Just Saying No

Bring Your Own Boards (Grapevine)

David Duke's Addictive Politics

The former Klansman is tapping a vein of resentment that may reach far

Excuse of the Week (Grapevine)

Footnotes From the Front (Grapevine)

Now She'll Never Get an NEA Grant (Grapevine)

Power Lunch Discount Coupon (Grapevine)

Running with A Bad Crowd: Neil Bush & the $1 billion Silverado debacle

How Neil Bush let himself get caught up in the $1 billion Silverado debacle

S&L Hot Seat

Thrift honchos squirm and politicians dither as the economy slides

The $70 Billion Sellout

How the big-money boys cleaned up on the thrift rescues

The Hottest Show in Hollywood

Some curious bit players steal the scene as the murder trial of the Menendez brothers approaches

The That Was No Lady Citation (Grapevine)

Throw Some of the Bums Out!

Rage wins in Massachusetts and Oklahoma, but most congressional incumbents are still sitting pretty

You Mean God Isn't English? (Grapevine)

America Abroad: Japan and the Vision Thing

Japan and the Vision Thing

Poland The Man Who Did His Duty

Jaruzelski, who is preparing to step down, is likely to be remembered better by historians than by his countrymen today

Ready, Aim, Fired

Remember The Good Old Lines?

South Africa The Pilgrim's Slow Progress

Though De Klerk's U.S. visit is symbolically important, he will find little succor abroad

Soviet Union All Power to the President

As parliament deadlocks over economic policy, an indecisive Gorbachev asks for the right to decide

The Gulf Saddam's Strategies

With most of the world arrayed against him, could the Iraqi leader break the embargo -- or even achieve his goals in war?

Tolling The Death Knell: Solzhenitsyn urges the swift breakup of the union

Knell Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn urges the swift breakup of the union

Trial by Fire

Who Lost Kuwait?

While no one is using those accusatory words yet, finger pointing is in full swing in the corridors of Washington

France: Have Faith, Save Water (World Notes)

Have Faith, Save Water

Liberia: Truce Under Pressure (World Notes)

Truce Under Pressure

Terrorism: Taking Revenge (World Notes)

Taking Revenge

The Philippines: New Tack on The Bases (World Notes)

New Tack on The Bases

Medicine: Cancer Shield: A way to block malignancies (Medicine)

A way to block malignancies

Medicine: Way Out of Reach (Medicine)

A schizophrenia drug is too costly for those who need it most

Living: Handing Out Scarlet Letters (Living)

Antiquated sex laws turn into a bludgeon for divorcing spouses

Ethics: Is Washington in Japan's Pocket? (Ethics)

A controversial new book challenges the way former top officials lobby for foreign interests, but fails to plumb the dilemma of patriotism in a global economy

Lancaster, Pennsylvania College Days: Then and Now (American Scene)

Then and Now A TIME writer revisits the past during freshman orientation week at Franklin & Marshall

Press: Buchanan, The Biter, Bitten

The pugnacious conservative pundit is accused of anti-Semitism

Religion: Ms. Moses

Did a woman write Scripture?

Technology: A Bumper Crop of Biotech

Genetic engineering promises to transform agriculture

Khrushchev's Secret Tapes (Books)

Suits Against White Sheets

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