Table of ContentsAmerican Notes THE NAVY , At Ease, Mr. Truitt American Notes NUCLEAR ENERGY Fallout from The Election American Notes CRIME After 18 Years, a Bust Once Outposts, Now Landmarks / Regional houses are where the new plays are being nurturedLet's MisbehaveAmerica Abroad Back in BusinessCOVER STORY Despair and Death In a Beijing Square After weeks of hesitation, the regime cracks down, and an unleashed military commits a massacre against its own peopleDIPLOMACY ''Here We Go, On the Offensive'' Bush finally scores a foreign policy triumph as he seizes the initiative from GorbachevTIME magazine masthead Vol. 133 No. 24 JUNE 12, 1989 A Love of Spontaneous Gesture The lyrical color-fields of Helen Frankenthaler are surveyed in a new showThe Greening of Hollywood Tinseltown has a boffo new cause: saving the planetEast St. Louis, Illinois A City Without Bootstraps In this place, the hottest ticket is a ticket to somewhere elseThe Republicans' Pit BullAmerican Notes AIRLINES In Los Angeles, See No Evil Have We Gone Too Far? Finger pointing over ethics has convulsed the Capitol and destroyed Jim Wright, but the real scandal with Congress is far more widespreadBusiness Notes INVESTMENTS This Land Is Their Land Medical Priorities Business Notes BENEFITS Ma Bell's Family Way Champion for Older Women Big Books, Big Bucks Here it is: the gripping saga of an industry on a binge, featuring publishers betting millions, authors getting rich and agents calling the shotsChilling Out?Business Notes MOVIES Indy Plunders The Box Office Radio Activists True ColorsToni Morrison's Views Gene-Splicing Revolution? A new bioengineering method lets sperm do the work That Old Guard Religion Business Notes COMMODITIES Chips on a New Block Business Notes CORPORATE RAIDERS He's Baaaack, With $2 Billion The Fall and Fall of Argentina Amid hyperinflation and hunger, a nation drifts into chaosSinging Hymns and Hers A hot-selling songbook downplays men and King JamesWhy Not Earth? The Naughty SchoolboyOur Violent Kids A rise in brutal crimes by the young shakes the soul of societyIRAN Sword of a Relentless Revolution Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini: 1900-1989 Don't Call Her Comrade ; VIOLETA CHAMORRO will answer to dona, but Managua's grande dame, publisher of La Prensa, wants no part of the Sandinistas she once supportedJAPAN Numero Uno The new top man pledges reform Silent AIDS A troubling finding SOVIET UNION A Volcano of Words and Wishes Past sins and present frustrations dominate the CongressBrother Nielsen Is Watching A TV monitoring device will keep a close eye on viewers TIME magazine contents page Vol. 133 No. 24 JUNE 12, 1989 An Old Idea Makes a Comeback Apprenticeship helps teach the skill of problem solvingGreek WordsSacred Cows As HamburgerStrapped for ActionA Useful Application of FaithPOLITICS, PANAMA-STYLE Last PlayPolitics, Late-Night Style Talk-show hosts are looking to the headlines for laughs
