NATION

PIPELINE TO THE PRESIDENT

AFTER ROGER TAMRAZ PUT UP $150,000, DEMOCRATIC PARTY OFFICIALS BATTLED THE CIA AND THE NSC TO GET HIM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE. GUESS WHO PREVAILED?

SMOKING GUN

A CIGARETTE MAKER FINALLY ADMITS THAT ITS PRODUCT IS DANGEROUSLY HABIT-FORMING. IS THIS THE END OF BIG TOBACCO'S LEGAL INVINCIBILITY?

WORLD

BIBI'S BLACK DAYS

CRISES AND SCANDAL HAVE PLAGUED NETANYAHU, AND NOW PALESTINIAN TERROR HAS RETURNED

NYET TO A NEW NATO

TWO RECUPERATING PRESIDENTS AGREE TO DISAGREE AND INSIST THEY ARE MAKING PROGRESS. WE'LL SEE

HEALTH & MEDICINE

WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS? (Medicine)

AIDS STRIKES THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN IN THE U.S., BUT THEY DON'T ALWAYS GET THE LATEST TREATMENT

SOCIETY

BLOODSHED IN THE BANKS (Crime)

FROM EAU CLAIRE TO ORLANDO, ROBBERIES ARE UP SHARPLY THIS YEAR. IS HOLLYWOOD TO BLAME?

RELIGION

FIDELITY = CHASTITY

A DIVISIVE PRESBYTERIAN VOTE OVER GAY ORDINATION MAY HAVE FATALLY WOUNDED A WIDER CHRISTIAN UNITY

SPORT

TECHNOLOGY

@THE SUPREME COURT

SOME SURPRISINGLY WIRED JUSTICES HEAR AN ANTIPORN CASE THAT WOULD RESTRICT FREE SPEECH IN CYBERSPACE

WIRED FOR WAR

DIGITAL SOLDIERS WILL MAKE THE ARMY SMARTER AND DEADLIER--IF THE COMPUTERS WILL JUST STOP CRASHING

BRIEFING

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

BUSINESS

FLYING INTO TROUBLE

WITH ITS TOOTHLESS INSPECTIONS AND DEAF EAR TO SAFETY WARNINGS, THE FAA HAS MADE AIR TRAVEL MORE PERILOUS THAN IT NEED BE

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

DANCE: MR. BIG OF THE NEW JIG (The Arts / DANCE)

IRISH-DANCE EXTRAVAGANZAS ARE SELLING OUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY--AND MICHAEL FLATLEY ISN'T SHY ABOUT STEPPING UP TO TAKE THE CREDIT

BOOKS: LIFE AMONG THE RUINS (The Arts / BOOKS)

TWO JOURNALISTS LOOK BEHIND THE SOVIET COLLAPSE AND THE UNRULY EFFORTS TO BUILD SOMETHING NEW

PEOPLE

LETTERS