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THE WEEK
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COVER: Why Voters Don’t Trust Clinton
Qualms about his character could doom him in November
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THE CAMPAIGN: Ross Perot’s Army
The Texan billionaire waters his grass-roots movement
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IDEAS: Stamp Out the Income Tax!
The U.S. should levy a direct consumption tax instead
50
AMERICAN SCENE: What Mr. Sam Wrought
^ The Wal-Mart revolution makes downtown merchants cry
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INTERVIEW: The New Art of Spying
CIA Director Robert Gates comes in from the cold war
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AMERICA ABROAD: Foreign Policy in Peoria
World affairs on the campaign trail
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DRUGS: Panama Just Says No
As Noriega awaits sentencing, his nation goes straight
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YUGOSLAVIA: Kill or Be Killed
A photo gallery about slaughter in the streets
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BRITAIN: Winning Is Not Enough
John Major still must treat a national malaise
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SOCIETY: The AIDS Ordeal of Arthur Ashe
Weighing the desire to know against the right of privacy
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ENVIRONMENT: The Beef About Beef
Are cattle to blame for world hunger and global warming?
78
PROFILE: Hollywood’s Comeback Kid
Thanks to a witty new film, Robert Altman is a player again
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EDUCATION: Two Plus Two, Pass the Sushi
American youngsters fare well by studying math in Japanese
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LIVING: Mickey Mouse Without a Beret
Disney’s French theme park makes few bows to local mores
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CULTURE: Psssst! Want to See Some Pictures?
A bitter struggle over access to the fabled Barnes collection
REVIEWS
ART Visual zit popping in Los Angeles 90
CINEMA Welles’ restored Moor prompts a call for more 91
THEATER Five Guys Named Moe party all night 92
A Streetcar Named Desire goes off the rails 93
MUSIC Wynonna Judd does just fine without Mama 94
TELEVISION A new show about doctors with heart 94
BOOKS Alice McDermott on sorrow, regret and loss 96
DEPARTMENTS
MANAGING EDITOR’S LETTER 8
LETTERS 10
GRAPEVINE 21
MILESTONES 37
PEOPLE 103
ESSAY 104
COVER: Photograph for TIME by Steve Liss
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