Table of ContentsAuteur! Auteur!Kid StuffET CETERA SCRAP METAL Awkward Timing Though apparently over, the GM strike cut into sales -- and profits Southern ExposureA Spate of Bad Numbers Most of the economic indicators bode ill for Bush in November Fires in the Night German right-wingers spearhead scores of attacks against foreigners Steer ClearWhat Liberalization? A dissident's arrest may indicate China is not ready for reform TV Could Nourish Minds and HeartsET CETERA CLEARING THE AIR Tony Does It His WayET CETERA OUT OF THE WOODS Lunatic EnterpriseBroadway's Record YearGrownup Show and TellA Calamitous Plague On All Our Houses Nicaragua's lethal tsunamis are the latest disaster to hit the planet Blues, Hot and Home FriedBonjour, TristesseUntimely Family Ties Clinton's spell of good press ends as his draft record resurfaces Breaking the Siege At last, California has a budget. But nobody's happy. SHORT TAKES Is Health Care Too Specialized? A new report charges that a shortage of primary-care doctors is hurting U.S. medicineHEAD COUNTFay Vincent Gets Beaned Baseball's owners call for the beheading of an unpopular commissioner. But whether their coup succeeds or fails, the sport will still be in trouble.VOX POPTales from the Crypt To solve history's mysteries, graveyard sleuths are unearthing the dead and famousWith a Little Help From Some Friends As Campaign '92 swirls around them, Floridians begin rebuilding It's the Czar All Right, But Where's Anastasia?The Mac AttackLightening UpTV'S GENERATION GAP The new fall programs are rife with angst-ridden baby boomers and fun-loving 20-year-olds. Some shows are witty; many are drivel.No Time for Diplomacy As hard-line nationalists and separatist ethnic groups tear his homeland apart, Shevardnadze finds that his reputation as a man of peace is on the firing lineTIME Magazine Masthead September 14, 1992 VOL. 140 NO. 11 He Plays Well in K.C.America Abroad The Curse of the Answered PrayerRethinking the Retrial?Return of the Prodigy A chess bonanza attracts the near mythic but still callow Bobby FischerPlanned Beaverhood The Recycling Bottleneck Everybody's doing it. But where do all those cans and bottles go from here?TIME Magazine Contents Page SEPTEMBER 14, 1992 VOL. 140, NO. 11 GET ON BOARD THE SLUDGE TRAIN''CLEANSED'' WOUND In a perilous trip through the countryside, a TIME correspondent discovers that Serbs have swept vast areas clean of Muslims and Croats, but their victory is a hollow oneCatastrophe 101 Will the government learn from Hurricane Andrew's stormy aftermath?To the Bench Via the Chair A major confirmation fight is brewing over the replacement of a federal judge who was a civil rights heroThe Presidency Just Wild About HarryFocusing on the Status Quo THE FIGHT OF BUSH'S LIFE Bellwether in a Storm $ Ohio's Montgomery County, where the candidates are running neck and neck, is an American microcosmAn Embarrassment of Riches THE RACE IN KEY PLACES An exclusive TIME poll shows Clinton well ahead of Bush in the battleground suburban counties where the election will be won or lostCuring the Vietnam Syndrome Here Comes C-SPAN ALL EYES ON HILLARY The G.O.P. hopes to gain votes by attacking her as a radical feminist who prefers the boardroom to the kitchen. But the ploy could backfire by alienating working women.Field of Schemes Croatia's Aims in Bosnia NO ''A,'' JOSE Documenting Pain Scared Silent sounds a shocking alarm on child abuse Charitable Conspiracy A judge finds M.I.T. and the Ivy League guilty of price fixing ET CETERA TRANSPLANT TROUBLE TV's Luminaries Leap All Over the Veep After weeks of criticism, they use the Emmy show to flail Quayle What Has Four Legs . . . A woman's trouble naming animals helps show how the brain works Quake Predictor Changes in a geyser's timing may mean the earth is about to move ET CETERA SETTLING AN EMBARRASSING SUIT Grim Fallout from Chernobyl Sooner than expected, cancer begins to hit children who were downwind