January 13, 1992 | Vol. 139 No. 2

I Know My Brother's Alive

California: Keep a Lid On It (American Notes)

Keep a Lid On It

Escapes: Day Trip to Freedom: Day Trip to Freedom (American Notes)

Day Trip to Freedom

Icons: No Euphoria in Astoria (American Notes)

No Euphoria in Astoria

Primaries: Who Needs Cuomo? (American Notes)

Who Needs Cuomo?

Better Than Fingerprints (Grapevine)

Crime: The Deadliest Year Yet

Here's a category in which the U.S. still leads the world: homicides, with roughly 25,000 in 1991

Democrats Strong Message, Wrong Messenger

Jerry Brown issues a powerful appeal for a voter uprising against politics-as-usual. But that old Governor Moonbeam image keeps getting in the way.

Expeditions: My Search for Colonel Scharf

A TIME correspondent treks through the jungle 17 years after the Vietnam War in hopes of solving a mystery: What happened to a missing U.S. pilot?

Kissinger Associates Can Sleep Soundly (Grapevine)

Reading, Writing and Geopolitics (Grapevine)

The Mia Industry Bad Dream Factory

An ex-KGB man claims the Soviets grilled U.S. prisoners long after the Vietnam War, but the hunt for missing Americans is still mainly a hustle based on false hopes, flimsy evidence and bereaved famil

There's Gold in Them Thar Missiles (Grapevine)

Vox Pop: Jan. 13, 1992 (Grapevine)

When the Boss Fears a Backlash (Grapevine)

Algeria: An Alarming No Vote

The fundamentalists' big gain is more a protest against socialist rule than a mandate for an Islamic republic

America Abroad

The Low Point of the Bush Presidency

Europe: Surge to The Right

From the Atlantic to the Urals, politicians stir fear and loathing of dark-skinned immigrants

More Pain Than Gain

As controls are lifted and prices skyrocket overnight, Russians get a rude lesson in free-market economics

Russia: Scrambling for the Pieces of an Empire

With nukes and navies up for grabs, not to mention the Bolshoi and the Hermitage, the republics try to sort out their inheritance

The Time Has Come to Help

A Winter Wonderland (World Notes)

A Winter Wonderland

El Salvador: An End to the Bloodletting? (World Notes)

An End to the Bloodletting?

Singapore: Tough Move on Gum Control (World Notes)

Tough Move on Gum Control

The Koreas: No Nukes -- Maybe (World Notes)

No Nukes -- Maybe

Yugoslavia: Dogged Is the Peacemaker (World Notes)

Dogged Is the Peacemaker

Breezing into The Future (Environment)

How can America curb its dangerous dependence on scarce, nasty fossil fuels? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

Beating Breast Cancer (Medicine)

Hormonal therapy is more effective for a wider range of patients than doctors had ever dreamed

Giving Your Wallet a Workout

High-tech inventors offer a new crop of elaborate -- and expensive -- gear

Just In Time

A new atomic clock will lose a second, at most, by the year A.D. 1,600,000

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Vol. 139 No. 2 JANUARY 13, 1992