Table of ContentsWhat If?Grapevine Hail To the Ex-Chief Despite all his troubles in the White House, JIMMY CARTER (yes, Jimmy Carter) may be the best former President America has ever hadTIME magazine contents page Vol. 134 No. 11 SEPTEMBER 11, 1989 Grapevine OverloadedBusiness Notes PHARMACEUTICALS The Capsules That Flunked Grapevine ''I Can See How Tough I Was'' At the U.S. Open, where it all began, a champion bids farewellBusiness Notes ENTERTAINMENT Even Kermit Has His Price Business Notes BREWING This Spud's For You Blandishments and Bombs As U.S. aid begins to arrive, Colombia's battle with the cocaine cartel intensifiesRoyal SplitMeanwhile, in Panama Business Notes AEROSPACE Dollar Signs In the Heavens Baltic Nationalism The Israeli ConnectionHOW BUSH DECIDES Mixed ReviewsBusiness Notes THE ECONOMY Not So Blah After All? Hanging In ThereTIME magazine masthead Vol. 134 No. 11 SEPTEMBER 11, 1989 Revenge of the Little People Hotel queen Leona Helmsley could trade penthouse for penShooting the MenWelcome to Putter's Paradise Miniature golf, a '20s fad, comes back in styleRose ReduxAmerican Notes WEST VIRGINIA Sex, Lies and Letters Neo-Plumbers on the Attack Leaks plus bum scoops add up to official overkillAmerican Notes MIAMI End of a Bitter Race American Notes THE NAVY Rebuke for the ''Robo Cruiser'' THE FUTURE OF U.S. SCHOOLS A Crisis Looms In Science Without a drastic improvement in funding and teaching methods, the U.S. will soon fall behindBattle of the Food Blurbs Never mind the flavor, selling health is what mattersGrapevine Death on a Mean Street A murder in a white section of Brooklyn ignites racial discordTale of Two Cities Postcards from a Distant World Mysteries deepen as data pour in from Neptune and its icy moonGalactic Birth? A surprise for scientists American Notes PARKS Haze over The Canyon SOVIET UNION The Language of Unrest As Moldavia simmers, the Baltics fire back at MoscowCOVER STORIES Fighting Back Bush declares another war on drugs, but it may not help muchThe Day of Reckoning Delayed Bakker's hallucinations prompt a suspension of his fraud trialSOUTH AFRICA The Great White Hope Could De Klerk be the man to break apartheid's grip?Lambasting Landers Wrong Analysis? When the Cat's Away . . . Bright Kids, Bad BusinessEAST-WEST Breaching the Wall As a flood of refugees flees Honecker's hard-line state, new questions emerge about the eventual reunification of divided GermanyBush's Battle Plan America Abroad The Beginning of NonsenseOn the Front Lines House by house, block by block, angry citizens are rising up against the drug dealers who have invaded their neighborhoods''People Are Impatient'' Poland's new Prime Minister talks about Western aid, Communism and Mikhail GorbachevReforms for RICO The Cruelty Of GeniusSpecial Report: Working Scared Where Did the Gung-Ho Go? It has been eroded by fear and anxiety on the job as employees endure an era of layoffs and turmoilClancy's Technothrillers World Notes MIDDLE EAST Faxless In Gaza Doing the Crime, Not the Time Creative sentences: fair punishment or a dodge for the privileged?Churning in the Shark Tank A founder of mighty KKR accuses the firm of dirty dealingAltered States Subversion by Cassette The VCR boom spells trouble for authoritarian regimesAdvice to Bosses: Try a Little KindnessRoman Catholics at Auschwitz Pensive PalsWorld Notes GASTRONOMY Henry VIII -- Malnourished? Far from Abyssmal World Notes CHINA Executions In Secret Faking Quotes Harsh Homily Poland's Primate aggravates a Catholic-Jewish controversy Zoo Stories HOW THE OTHERS ARE FARING World Notes INDIA Pulling the Plug On Gandhi
