Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No. 3 JULY 17, 1989

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COVER: In a single, ordinary week, 464 people died by gunfire. These are their stories

Tawanah Jean Griggs, the young woman on the cover, was sitting on a sofa in her mother’s home in Bartlesville, Okla., when her 20-year-old cousin fired a shotgun into her chest on May 1. At 17, she thus became one of hundreds of gun victims killed in the first week of May. They were shot accidentally or in an impulsive moment of anger, killed by friends, wives or husbands; they took their own lives or came to a violent end in a street quarrel or drug dispute. What they have in common is that they are all victims of an American epidemic: hundreds more like them will die this week, and the week after. See NATION.

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NATION: By upholding a restrictive abortion law, the Supreme Court sets the stage for a corrosive political fight

Pro-life forces, energized by the prospect of outlawing abortions, and pro- choice activists, galvanized by the fear of losing their rights, vow to turn every election in every state into a referendum on the issue. — A new TIME poll finds that a majority of Americans want abortions to remain legal and disagree with the court’s decision. — Five states where the battle is hottest.

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WORLD: Extremism again holds sway in the Middle East

Hours after Israel scuttles its peace initiative, a Palestinian fanatic kills 14 in a bus disaster. — Mexico’s ruling party concedes a historic election.

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HEALTH: Warning! Power lines may be hazardous

Some preliminary studies and a slew of lawsuits contend that living near electrical power lines causes everything from cancer to miscarriage. Even your toaster, some say, could be a culprit.

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SCIENCE: Europe aims to win a physics race

At a new particle smasher near Geneva, scientists hope to finally unravel the building blocks that make up matter and energy. But a Stanford team is still trying to beat them to it.

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BUSINESS: Sporty mail-order catalogs are sizzling

Lands’ End, J. Crew and Tweeds reap handsome sales by offering preppie wear to baby boomers who are partial to natural fibers but too busy to go to the mall.

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FASHION: New swimsuits offer a discreet cover-up

For women who have outgrown the unforgiving itsy-bitsy bikini, a new wave of fashionable beachwear is helping camouflage the bulges and sags.

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DANCE: The Kirov leaps onto the ballet scene

The arrival of Leningrad’s classical troupe, cradle of Balanchine and Baryshnikov, poses a question: Why is Soviet style so different from American?

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PROFILE: A fiercely independent filmmaker who shoots probing movies on his own creative terms

Spike Lee, whose films intentionally raise social and political questions, has made this summer’s most controversial movie, Do the Right Thing, about race relations in a hot New York City neighborhood. His movies don’t just aim to please; they expose stereotypes and vent his anger.

12 Critics’ Choice

16 Letters

79 People

80 Law

80 Milestones

84 Books

85 Music

91 Theater

96 Essay

Cover: Photograph of Tawanah Griggs from Bartlesville Mid-High School yearbook