Table of ContentsReturn from AlienationTIME magazine masthead AUGUST 31, 1992 VOL. 140 NO. 9 The I's Don't Have It ATTACK OF THE Superbugs In the battle against old scourges, magic bullets are losing their power, and invisible legions of drug-resistant microbes are again on the march''The Heart Wants What It Wants'' From his Fifth Avenue penthouse, Woody defends his love for Soon-Yi and heatedly denies allegations of child abuseThe Espionage Goes onSoon-Yi: Woody Was Not My FatherWas This Stuff on CNN?What Is Incest?Just Making a Few RepairsSCORECARDAnd Now the Movie . . .Same to YouScenes from a Breakup A storied love affair crashes in shards as Mia Farrow accuses Woody Allen of incest and child molestation. For the prurient, it was a delight; for Allen and for Farrow's motley family, a piteous descent into hell.Fox in the Peacock CoopThe Veep Bites Back Quayle's tough acceptance speech aims for the Democratic jugular Playing for The Big Bounce Bush cuts into Clinton's lead as he rallies his fractious party BUYING BLACK Mainstream companies are cashing in on African-American consumersDEADLY FORCE How Israeli commandos are waging an undercover war in the occupied territoriesAmerica Abroad And Now For Some Good NewsVOX POPGold Rush in Reverse California battles a wildfire in the land of Mark Twain and Bret Harte PRELUDE TO A SUMMER BLIZZARD Gotcha! The CIA's most embarrassing turncoat is nabbed in Stockholm We Can All Share American CultureBeyond the Blues and BoasPOISON PEN A Heroic HanksFergie FiascoCan Bosnia Be Fixed With a Hammer? Military force may be used. But how -- and how much -- is undecided. You Fly, You Die A plan to protect Shi'ites could put a squeeze on Iraq's Saddam Russia for Everyman Yeltsin wants to give each citizen $62 worth of the state's assets So Long, PeacockET CETERA A LONG REIGN ENDS Black Protest Economic chaos and corruption charges may topple Brazil's Collor SHORT TAKES Collision of CulturesGreenback Blues The dollar dives to its lowest level since World War II Slipping Beneath The Bottom Line Wang Laboratories and Phar-Mor file for bankruptcy court protection Murder Midst The FernsThe Thrust of His ThoughtET CETERA FRIENDLIER NEIGHBORS The Purge of Battle Some of the Persian Gulf is less fouled than it was before the war Space Invader A huge impact 370 million years ago may have killed off most life on earth Family Planning Reaches the Forest A contraceptive vaccine could lick the deer overpopulation problem ET CETERA STAY COOL A $500,000 Fragment Part of Lincoln's pivotal ''house divided'' speech will be auctioned No Gunmen for Rent An appeals court rules a magazine liable for a public offer to kill Last Flight Of a Legend After 13 seasons, Larry Bird takes himself out of the game TIME magazine contents page AUGUST 31, 1992 VOL. 140 NO. 9 FAMILY VALUES The Republican pitch seems cynical, but it goes to the soul of what kind of country Americans wantHere Come the Big Guns After the rhetorical rumbling in Houston, the G.O.P. readies a fierce assault on four policy fronts. Clinton prepares a counterattack, but may be vulnerable on some pointsPulpit Politics Bush and Quayle once again need the support of evangelical Christians, but this year those voters can turn to two Baptist candidates: Clinton and GoreThe Politics of Self-Revelation Mosquito Tactics The Presidency Hail to the PrisonerThe Political Interest Trouble in ParadiseLosing the Battle Boxing In Saddam A ban on Iraqi flights over the southern marshes is the Bush Administration's latest military -- and political -- battle planMunich All Over Again? Talks on a settlement in Bosnia sound uncomfortably reminiscent of the 1938 surrender to aggressionTHE DOOMSDAY PLAN Olympic Dud
