TO OUR READERS . 4
LETTERS ........ 7
CHRONICLES ..... 17
MILESTONES ..... 23
THE WHITE HOUSE: Clinton's Lessons of Victory 26
Can his NAFTA coalition hold together for bigger challenges?
Trade: America's new competitive muscle 28
CONGRESS: Searching for an Escape Route 33
It may be too late for Packwood just to resign his post
ELECTIONS: Sorry, It Was Only a Boast 33
Rollins claims he made up his tale of vote manipulation
POLITICS: Ambushing the Chief 34
A conservative cabal sets out to undermine the President
DRUGS: The Government's Contraband 35
How the CIA enabled a ton of coke to enter the U.S.
ASIA: Candidate for Superpower 36
The U.S. faces a challenge from a confident, booming giant
The Political Interest: Putting business first 40
RUSSIA: Running on Empty 42
Voters must choose from a bizarre smorgasbord of candidates
SOUTH AFRICA: Grand Bargain 43
A new law of the land for blacks and whites
COVER: Crumbling Legacies and Lies of the Mind 46
IDEAS: Father Freud is under siege
BEHAVIOR: Repressed-memory therapy is harming patients and intensifying a backlash against mental-health practitioners
CONTROVERSY: Extraterrestrial remembrances
BUSINESS: Fasten Your Seat Belts 62
A strike at American foreshadows industry-wide union turmoil
RETAILING: Timberland Gives Nike the Boot 63
As fashion shifts, the New Hampshire company hits its stride
SPACE: NASA Goes for Broke 65
The risky Hubble mission could be a triumph -- or a fresh fiasco
LAW: Conduct Unbecoming by Whom? 67
Slowly the gays-in-the-military issue heads for the high court
EDUCATION: Last of the Buffalo? 67
Risking political incorrectness, Penn rescinds its speech code
ARTS & MEDIA
Architecture: I.M. Pei brings light and logic to the Louvre 68
Theater: Does kidnapping for Jesus make moral sense? 71
A beguilingly surreal family tragicomedy
Music: Good beats from Snoop Doggy Dogg 73
Cinema: Two eccentric comedies celebrate family values 74
Kevin Costner gives lessons in backwoods manhood
Books: War as man's oldest mystery and drama 76
Garcia Marquez sends some innocents abroad to Europe
Love and Infamy, a novel of war, romance and treachery
Annie Proulx perseveres and captures literary loot
PEOPLE 85
ESSAY 86
COVER: Photo illustration for TIME by Matt Mahurin. Based on a photograph from the Granger Collection.