June 10, 1991 | Vol. 137 No. 23

A Star Is Born In the Soviet Union (Grapevine)

A Widow Dies In China (Grapevine)

BAILOUTS: $950 Million To Go: $950 Million To Go (American Notes)

$950 Million To Go

BASEBALL: It Takes One To Play One (American Notes)

It Takes One To Play One

DEFENSE: Turning Off The Radars (American Notes)

Turning Off The Radars

ENVIRONMENT: Mothers of Prevention (American Notes)

Mothers of Prevention

LAW ENFORCEMENT Wanted: Ethnic G-Persons (American Notes)

LAW ENFORCEMENT Wanted: Ethnic G-Persons

Benefit Beat (Grapevine)

Lessons of Desert Storm Phantom Army

For the most part the National Guard fought well in the gulf. But some outfits, plagued by no-shows and poor training, never got to the front.

Public Service: The Golden Rocking Chair

Thanks to fat pensions, many retired officials make more than those still on the job

Right Fish, Wrong State (Grapevine)

The Hazards of A Messy Desk (Grapevine)

The Little Unit That Couldn't

The Urban Crisis: Everybody's Fall Guy

As Los Angeles' neighbors sink under smog, congestion, crime and uncurbed development, they have made the city a whipping boy for all their woes

Who Says We Have To Be Consistent? (Grapevine)

America Abroad

Growls in The Garden

Coping with The Famine

Diplomacy: Getting China Wrong

In keeping with tradition, the White House and Congress both overestimate their influence on Beijing

Ethiopia: Rebels Take Charge

The guerrillas seize the capital and agree to help form a peace government, but a unified and democratic Ethiopia remains a quixotic dream

Middle East: The Ban That Isn't

Bush's arms plan omits a few items (planes, tanks . . .)

Military Pacts: Nato Goes on a Diet

Faced with a diminished Soviet threat, the alliance tries to slim down, improve its reflexes -- and reduce U.S. dominance

Refugees Transplanted in Time

As more Ethiopian Jews flood into Israel, those who arrived earlier have learned to like suburbia. But all that noise!

Soviet Union Kissing Hands, Shaking Babies

Russia's first presidential election is at hand, but the candidates haven't got the art of campaigning quite right

INDIA In Search of Stability (World Notes)

INDIA In Search of Stability

IRAN: Love for Sale (World Notes)

IRAN Love for Sale

MEXICO Life in the Posh Lane (World Notes)

MEXICO Life in the Posh Lane

NORTH KOREA Coming In from The Cold (World Notes)

NORTH KOREA Coming In from The Cold

Requiem for The Space Station (Space)

NASA's proposed house in the sky will cost too much -- and do too little

Stalking: Who Done It At the White House (Medicine)

Did Millie or faulty faucets really lead the President and First Lady to develop the same disease? Nonsense. But autoimmune disorders can be strange.

Take A Viking To Lunch (Food)

The hottest thing in the chic kitchen is a $6,000 stove

Watching Children Starve to Death (Health)

An exclusive look at the suffering inside Iraq's devastated hospitals

Hold On to Your Joysticks (Living)

Nintendo's powerful new game system could get zapped

Shooting Leopards in a Barrel (Ethics)

In a perversion of sport, canned hunts offer helpless exotic animals for slaughter in exchange for big bucks

Roller Blades: Whiz! Zoom! Crash! Ouch! (Living)

A speedy sport takes a brisk and painful toll

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