October 29, 1990 | Vol. 136 No. 18

A Flock Of Stealths (Grapevine)

A Quotas-vs.-Voters Dilemma

The President endangers his support among blacks by digging in his heels on a civil rights bill

Air Force: Close Encounters (American Notes)

Close Encounters

Alaska: Will They Just Vote No? (American Notes)

Will They Just Vote No?

Cigarettes: Snuffing Out The Machines (American Notes)

Snuffing Out The Machines

Indians: Chief Offender (American Notes)

Chief Offender

Texas: Buzzing Over The Border (American Notes)

Buzzing Over The Border

Coming Attractions? (Grapevine)

Did He Forget That L.A. Is Closer? (Grapevine)

Enigma of the Week (Grapevine)

Generous Retiree of the Week (Grapevine)

Getting Down and Dirty

In races around the nation, candidates for Governor are attacking their opponents instead of debating issues

Hugh Sidey's America: Why We Still Like Ike

Why We Still Like Ike A century after his birth, Americans revere Dwight Eisenhower's small-town humanity and commonsense leadership

Ignoble Prize for Candor (Grapevine)

Municipal Affairs

Nashville's mayor puts on a Grand Ole Soap Opry

Not A Class Act

After one last round of partisan wrangling, Congress clears the way for a budget deal by playing the politics of resentment

Sununu Agonistes (Grapevine)

Talk About a Teflon Candidate . . . (Grapevine)

The Back-to-School Advisory (Grapevine)

The Generation Gap

With Friends Like These

New evidence reveals what three Senators did in exchange for Keating's hefty campaign gifts

America Abroad: How Israel Is Like Iraq

How Israel Is Like Iraq

How Times Have Changed

Japan A Return to Arms?

The Diet launches a contentious debate on whether to send military forces abroad for the first time since World War II

Liberia In the Land of Blood and Tears

A TIME correspondent finds herself on both sides of the fighting in a civil war that has taken 10,000 lives and shows no sign of ending

Soviet Union No Peace for the Prizewinner

Mikhail Gorbachev finally picks a reform program, and Boris Yeltsin promptly picks a fight over who can best end the economic chaos

The Agony of Victory

By reuniting Beirut, Syria's Hafez Assad is the first clear-cut winner of the gulf crisis. The Lebanese may not fare as well.

The Gulf Trip Wires to War

What would it take for the U.S. to attack Iraq, and how would Bush square the decision with the U.N. and Congress?

Brazil: Cupid in the Cabinet (World Notes)

Cupid in the Cabinet

Czechoslovakia: Bitter Glass Of Beer (World Notes)

Bitter Glass Of Beer

Espionage: And Now There Are Five (World Notes)

And Now There Are Five

Germany: The Check Is In the Mail (World Notes)

The Check Is In the Mail

South Africa: Good News, Bad News (World Notes)

Good News, Bad News

Medicine: Beating Back a Ruthless Killer (Medicine)

Blocked arteries can be unclogged without surgery, according to studies by leading researchers, and that could transform the way doctors treat heart disease

Clifton, New Jersey Warlocks, Witches and Swastikas (American Scene)

A forgiving rabbi tries to enlighten the four teenagers who defaced his home and temple

Behavior: Sex Lives and Videotape (Behavior)

More and more couples are making do-it-yourself erotic films

Press: Getting Bad News Firsthand

An ad slump causes newspapers to trim their editorial sails

Press: Saying Goodbye to Mr. Lee

Dow Jones bails out of a long-running feud in Singapore

Time Magazine Masthead: Oct. 29, 1990 (Masthead)

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