Table of ContentsIt's a Steal The world's cultural heritage is being looted by thieves who often have ties to organized crime -- and even get help from the art worldCOVER STORY Condition: Critical Millions of Americans have no medical coverage, and costs are out of control. Here are 10 ways to fix what ails us.Playwright's Own Story FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA by Endesha Ida Mae HollandOregon's Value JudgmentTHE PERKS GO ON . . . AND ON . . . AND ONDRIVING MR. PRESIDENTFORWARD SPINThe Political Interest The Abortion Issue -- AgainAMERICAN NOTES CRIME Fire in the Sanctuary AMERICAN NOTES MURDERS More Death in The Mailroom A Goner from the Git-Go Last year's fizzled Bonfire is elegized in a book bristling with cruel Hollywood witLOUISIANA The No-Win Election The neo-Nazi and the rapscallion slug it out, and in the end, decency and the pocketbook prevailDashing and Demanding With a superb new album, U2 reinvents itselfPOLITICS Why Bigotry Still Works At Election Time When politicians rail about crime, welfare or Big Government, they are often really talking about raceKeep an Eye on the Furniture The visual voodoo of an Addams Family portrait and the shimmering spell of a Disney cartoon are triumphs of styleCHINA Comes the Evolution Beijing's gerontocrats want Western trade and investment but are determined to save their systemThe 30-Year Writer's Block After much advance praise and even more delay, Harold Brodkey finally finishes his long-awaited first novelAmerica Abroad Fiddling While Dubrovnik BurnsCAMBODIA One Step Out of a Nightmare Sihanouk comes home, bringing with him frail hopes that a U.N.-monitored peace might end his country's tragedyAMERICAN NOTES NUPTIALS A Present From a Prince AMERICAN NOTES ELECTIONS Pat for President? The Ghosts of Studio BYUGOSLAVIA The Human Cost of War After 12 failed cease-fires, Croatians and Serbs are starving and dying -- and wondering why no one stops the bloodlettingBlondie, Meet Herb And Marcy Long shut out of the mainstream, black cartoonists are now livening up the nation's funny pagesWORLD NOTES KENYA A Death Explained EatingWORLD NOTES SOUTH AFRICA Culling the Springboks In His FaceDaring DivaTERRORISM Solving the Lockerbie Case Two Libyans are indicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 -- but how can Gaddafi's regime be punished?WORLD NOTES SOVIET UNION Face-Off With Boris Sib SongsORGANIZED CRIME An Offer They Can't Refuse Weakened by turncoats and convictions, Mob families are considering a strategic solution: the mergerWORLD NOTES AUSTRIA Notch One for Nativism TIME magazine contents page Vol. 138 No. 21 NOVEMBER 25, 1991 THE ECONOMY Down and Dirty Washington's easy-credit strategy has been a boon for borrowers, but its inability to start a recovery sends Wall Street into a sudden skidBUSINESS NOTES ENTERTAINMENT Snow Job From Up North Money Angles What George -- and You -- Should Do NextPush-Button Sailing BUSINESS NOTES UNEMPLOYMENT A Bit More Cushion Killing Power Coal Mining's Toll BUSINESS NOTES BANKING Hunt for the B.C.C.I. Bunch BUSINESS NOTES ADVERTISING Battling the Bimbo Factor Why Did Communism Fail? David Duke and American DeclineALTERNATIVE MEDICINE BUSINESS NOTES AIRLINES Midway's Hard Landing Getting Personal . . . But You Were Afraid to Ask On Being Irish How Safe Is Sex? When Magic Johnson announced that he had the AIDS virus, he put the risk of heterosexual transmission squarely in center courtThe Global Baby Chase Remembrance of Things Past Reprieve for Breast Implants Their safety is unproved, but it's tough to ban something already used by 2 million U.S. womenRegulatory Shenanigans The Dangerous World of Wannabes Magic Johnson's plight brings fear into pro locker rooms across the country and spotlights the riskiest athletic perk: promiscuous sexGiving the Public What It Wants WHY THE PREACHER IS A GRINCHFather of The Child Within JOHN BRADSHAW, the leading guru on the self-help circuit, claims that we must all come to grips with our unhappy childhoodsTHE GULF WILL DO NICELY WITHOUT THE PLANESShort Road to Heart Attacks Small people are at risk, especially if they are hostile, potbellied, chain-smoking couch potatoesTIME magazine masthead Vol. 138 No. 21 NOVEMBER 25, 1991 Divorce, Bochco-Style CIVIL WARS; ABC; debuting Nov. 20, 10 p.m. ESTInvasion of the Superbug A voracious insect is chewing its way through California crops, and consumers across the U.S. may pay the price
