COVER
Summit to Save the Earth: Rich vs. Poor
North and South will meet in Rio to confront the planet's most pressing ills. The event could change the world -- or be a disaster of global proportions.
Summit to Save the Earth the Big Green Payoff
Who says what's good for the environment is bad for the economy? From electric cars to solar cells, products that protect the planet will earn hefty profits in the future.
Summit to Save the Earth: Sideshows Galore
Summiteers who find the official speeches a snooze can skip out for some rousing rhetoric, tribal wisdom and a festival of the arts. Here's a sampler.
Summit to Save the Earth the Negotiations Scoreboard
Summit to Save the Earth: Population
The Uninvited Guest
Summit to Save the Earth
NATION
Banished by the Queen? (Grapevine)
Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown (The Week: Nation)
The Vice President takes on a TV character over family values
The Shredder, Please (The Week: Nation / Et Cetera)
The Shredder, Please
Forward Spin: Jun. 1, 1992 (Grapevine)
Frantic Final Hours (The Week: Nation)
A convicted killer dies amid claims of innocence and cries of indignation
Giving Away the Weapons Store (National Security)
The proposed sale of a troubled defense contractor to the French triggers an argument over America's security needs
Not The Grassy Knoll? (The Week: Nation)
A 28-year-old postmortem offers fresh evidence on J.F.K.
Ours Is Better Than Yours (Grapevine)
Tempting The Truth Squad (Grapevine)
That Could Buy a Lot of Pamphlets (Grapevine)
The Blame Game (Grapevine)
The Politics of Cells (The Week: Nation)
Bush tries to fend off his first veto override, on fetal-tissue research
Virtual-Reality (The Week: Nation)
Politics In the Northwest, Perot wins hearts even while Clinton and Bush win votes
Vox Pop: Jun. 1, 1992 (Grapevine)
WORLD
Against All Odds (The Week World)
Calm weather and abject despair drive Haitians back into the sea
China's Smoke Signal (The Week World)
An underground nuclear blast tells the world where to go
Documented Slaughter (The Week World / Et Cetera)
Documented Slaughter
Unfriendly Fire (The Week World / Et Cetera)
Unfriendly Fire
Growing Pains (Thailand)
Why the burgeoning middle class in a prosperous Asian country rose up to insist that a flawed democracy was better than military rule
In From The Cold (The Week World)
Always aloof, Switzerland moves closer to its European partners
It's Falling (Really!) (The Week World)
The Leaning Tower of Pisa gets a steel girdle to hold it up
The Last Nazi (The Week World)
The King and Them (The Week World)
Thailand's monarch forces an ending to his country's bloody confrontation
Up Against the Border (The Week World)
Ethnic strife in the former Soviet Union threatens to involve Turkey
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Kicking The Habit (The Week Health & Science)
Smoking is at a record low in the U.S., but worldwide deaths are still rising
They Just Don't UNDERSTAND (Health)
A maverick gynecologist argues that male physicians are poorly equipped to care for female patients
BUSINESS
A Thirst for Competition
Gatorade, the long-reigning champ of the billion-dollar sports-drink field, braces for a big-league challenge from Coke, Pepsi and other contenders
Salomon's Fine (The Week: Business / Et Cetera)
Salomon's Fine
Once More, With Backing (The Week: Business)
U.S. auto executives and their Japanese counterparts face off
Paper Profits (The Week: Business)
GM sets a new sales record, but it's not in the showroom
Underground Partners (The Week: Business)
An American giant stakes out a big oil position in Kazakhstan
LAW
Roger Coleman: You Don't Always Get Perry Mason
As Coleman goes to the chair, questions remain about his case -- and the quality of court-appointed legal defenders
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
And One for the Road (The Week Arts & Entertainment)
After a week's worth of tributes, Johnny Carson says his last good-night
And Then She Was Nun (Reviews Cinema)
Dancing Till They Drop (Reviews Theater)
Delightful, De-Lovely (Reviews Music)
Onward And Yupward (Reviews Books)
Pet Tricks (Reviews Books)
Reviews Short Takes: Jun. 1, 1992 (Reviews Short Takes)
Rite Of Spring (The Week Arts & Entertainment)
The 45th annual Cannes film festival yields few surprises
The Week Arts & Entertainment (The Week Arts & Entertainment)
The World's Worst Director (Cinema)
Edward D. Wood Jr.'s '50s films are stupefyingly inept -- and so much more
SOCIETY
The Tomb of Queen Nefertari (Culture)
Mummy Dearest Damaged by humidity and humanity, the wall paintings memorializing the favorite wife of King Ramses II are gloriously restored
TO OUR READERS
From The Publisher: Jun. 1, 1992 (From The Publisher)
MISCELLANY
Teacher's Pets (The Week Miscellany)
What's Up, Doc? (The Week Miscellany)
ESSAY
In Defense of Good Intentions
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
America Abroad: The Serbian Death Wish (America Abroad)
The Serbian Death Wish
But Seriously, Folks . . . (U.S. Politics)
Dan Quayle's wacky attack on TV's Murphy Brown obscures a serious discussion about motherhood, morality and government's responsibility
The 34% Solution (U.S. Politics)
Faced with the Perot challenge and a rejiggered electoral map, Bush and Clinton abandon the center to shore up their traditional bases
The Political Interest: Straight Talk About Race (U.S. Politics)
Straight Talk About Race
Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
June 1, 1992 Volume 139 No. 22
Where Fathers and Mothers Know Best (U.S. Politics)
Despite Quayle's complaint, television is filled with families who may have faults but at least stick together