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TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PROFILE: Filmmaker, junk-food gourmet and gee-whiz genius, David Lynch, launches a new Twin Peaks season — 84
From his early cult films to a hit soap opera, he has traveled a road as unique as his obsessions. He has already proved that an eccentric film artist can change the way America looks at TV. Can Twin Peaks now become a mainstream habit?
• EXCERPT: Khrushchev’s long-hidden tapes tell of murder and near apocalypse — 68
In reminiscences taped after he was ousted in 1964 but withheld by his family for years to prevent reprisals, the late Soviet ruler sheds startling light on how Stalin set the stage for the bloody purges of the 1930s, a wartime overture to Hitler and Castro’s bid to launch nuclear missiles against the U.S.
• NATION: Hold on to your wallet: The bottomless bailout of the S&Ls is getting costlier. — 34
As the glare focuses on thrift honchos, the economy worsens and Washington dithers. The Silverado story: how Neil Bush threw in with hustlers who cost taxpayers $1 billion. With voters sicker than usual of politics-as-usual, it’s a tricky year for incumbents. Former Klansman David Duke taps a rich vein of resentment. The tangled tale of the Menendez murders.
• WORLD: Saddam’s strategies for beating the anti-Iraq coalition — 50
The U.S. is concerned that he will get Iran’s help to break the embargo, and even believes he could win a war. But he might try a (probably unacceptable) compromise offer first. As Iraqis look Kuwait, a finger-pointing debate starts on whether—and who in—Washington might have given an unintentional wink and nod. Gorbachev asks for the power to decree economic reform, but who cares? Power is passing to the republics anyway. History is likely to remember General Jaruzelski more fondly than do his Polish countrymen.
• MEDICINE: Prohibitive price for a vital pill — 79
Doctors and lawmakers are outraged over the cost of a new schizophrenia drug that could benefit thousands. An acne drug can prevent some cancers.
• PRESS: Patrick Buchanan and anti-Semitism — 80
Ever provocative, with a gift for the grating phrase, the newspaper and TV analyst is himself attacked after charging that Israel and American Jews are fueling U.S. fervor for a Middle East war.
• VIDEO: Jesse Jackson gets a new TV forum — 82
The former presidential contender has restyled himself as a globe-trotting reporter and a talk-show host. But some suspect that his motives are more political than journalistic.
• ETHICS: Is Washington in Japan’s pocket? — 106
A new book challenges the way former top U.S. officials lobby for foreign clients—and raises important questions about the demands of patriotism in a world of economic rivalries.
• Letters — 10
• American Scene — 23
• Critics’ Voices — 30
• Grapevine — 31
• Religion — 80
• Theater — 83
• Milestones — 83
• Books — 90
• Technology — 92
• Living — 98
• Art — 100
• People — 108
Cover: Photograph by Gregory Heisler
