Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
470416607
label
Magazines, February 19, 1990
core
doc
dtoType
document
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
470416607
contentType
document
title
Magazines, February 19, 1990
citationUrl
identifierLocal
90536-007
collections
George H. W. Bush Papers
Presidential Daily Files
imageCount
1
hasImages
yes
source
import
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
naId
470416607
coverageEndDate
day
19
logicalDate
1990-02-19
month
2
year
1990
coverageStartDate
day
19
logicalDate
1990-02-19
month
2
year
1990
levelOfDescription
fileUnit
recordType
description
ocrSource
nara-archive
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
document
mediaId
1c942ddf5828507e
ocrText
Originally Processed With FOIA(s):
FOIA Number:
2009-0166-S
2009-0166-S
FOIA
MARKER
This is not a textual record. This is used as an
administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection:
George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
OA/ID Number:
90536
Folder ID Number:
90536-007
Folder Title:
Magazines, February 19, 1990
Stack:
Row:
Section:
Shelf:
Position:
V
12
11
6
2
GOOD NEWS FROM THE DRUG WAR
U.S.News
FEBRUARY 19, 1990
$1.95
IN THE KREMLIN
COMMUNISM'S
LAST
STAND
GORBACHEV'S
DESPERATE NEW BID
TO SAVE HIS PARTY-
AND HIS REVOLUTION
08
0 02239
140066
U.S.News
February 19, 1990 Vol. 108 No. 7
BUSINESS
4 Letters to the Editor
45 Business's green revolution. Firms are
scrambling to clean up their products
CURRENTS
along with their images
8 One Week: Now, the year of the ballot
49 A bright spot on the assembly lines.
11 Romania's AIDS horrors
Inflation
Healthy appetites for "nondurables"
watch
The food-label fight
Time for
year-round schools?
Baseball myths
16 Washington Whispers
VICKI INQUIRER MATRIX
50 When Soviet military factories change
from making tanks to consumer goods
14 John Leo on Catholic politics of abortion
53 Economic Outlook: Sylvia Nasar on a
different kind of supply-side revolution
U.S.NEWS
HORIZONS
18 Beating back the cocaine kings
18
Peruvian soldiers
54 If only life were so simple. Why
move against drug lords
the fascination with primitive tribes?
22 Congress's anti-sleaze crusade
59 The tease of independence. The
26 Messing up the nuclear cleanup
severely disabled have no place to go
29 Tomorrow: Michael Barone on revenge
NEWS YOU CAN USE
of the party switchers
61 Travel: Discovering Eastern Europe. Go
WORLD REPORT
now for adventure, before the crowds
COVER
68 Family finance: How tykes can be
tycoons. With grown-up planning, a child
30 Gorbachev's troubles are not over
can be in business
34 Is the U.S. betting too much on him?
69 Tax Tips: A home-office deduction for
people who work elsewhere
38 Seweryn Bialer on Soviet politics
NOVOSTI/SOVFOTO
70 Vital Statistics
41 Where the cold war isn't over
30 Gorbachev tightens
71 News You Can Use: Treating
his political grip
mysterious chest pain; dialing for
42 Japan's old-time electioneering
detergent; rent a car and a phone, too
44 Worldgram: The tightening race in
Nicaragua; De Klerk takes on his critics
72 Editorial: America on the sidelines
CHRISTIAN BEL ACK STAR
RICK STAR
1718
45 Recycling America's
54 Yanomamo father and sons at feast
fast-food debris
61
Enjoying Hungary's Lake Heviz
COVER: Photo by Wesley Bocxe-SIPA
Copyright © 1990, by U.S. News & World Report, Inc. All rights reserved. U.S.News & World Report (ISSN 0041-5537) is published weekly, except for one combined issue mailed in August and a second
combined issue mailed in December, $39.75 per year, by U.S. News & World Report, Inc., 2400 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-1196 Second Class postage paid at Washington, D.C., and at additional
mailing offices. POSTMASTERS: Send address changes to U.S. News & World Report, P.O. Box 55929. Boulder, Colo. 80322-5929. U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT WORLD REPORT™ NEWS YOU CAN
USE@ WORLDGRAM@ WASHINGTON WHISPERS® TOMORROW
Printed in the U.S.A.
EDITORIAL AND CORPORATE OFFICES
ADVERTISING OFFICES
SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT
2400 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-1196, 202-955-2000
599 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1200, New York, N.Y. 10022-6004, 212-326-5300
Post Office Box 55929, Boulder, Colo. 80322-5929
To order U.S. News, to change an address, or for subscription questions, write to the Subscription Department, P.O. Box 55929, Boulder, Colo. 80322-5929, or call 1-800-333-8130
N
3
U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 19, 1990
FEBRUARY 19, 1990
$2.50
FREEDOM FOR MANDELA
TIME
Starting Gorbachev turns his
Over
back on Lenin
08
10090
Vol. 135, No. 8
TIME
THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE
IGOR GAVRILOV
WORLD: The
Gorbachev
revolution
finally comes
home
The Soviet leader
ends seven decades
of Communist
monopoly, and 1990
may go down as the
most important year
in Soviet history
since 1917.
Freedom for
Nelson Mandela
pushes South Africa
into uncharted
waters.
28
TERRY ASHE
NATION: An iconoclastic plan
for cutting Social Security
taxes exposes Washington's
dirty little secret: the true size
of the deficit
Former President Reagan invokes
Executive privilege to avoid revealing his
personal diary in John Poindexter's Iran-
contra trial.
Father Bruce Ritter, founder
of the nation's best program for runaway
teenagers, is forced to step aside.
48
TIME (ISSN 0040-781X) is published weekly for $58.24 per year, by The Time Inc. Magazine Company. Principal Office: Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y., 10020-1393. Regi-
nald K. Brack Jr., President; Joseph A. Ripp, Treasurer; Harry M. Johnston, Secretary. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. © 1990 The Time Inc. Magazine
Company. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. TIME and the Red Border Design are protected through trademark registration in the United States
and in the foreign countries where TIME magazine circulates. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to TIME, P.O. Box 30601, Tampa, Fla. 33630-0601. For subscription queries, call Customer
Service at 1-800-541-2000.
4
FEBRUARY 19, 1990
BUSINESS: Why is
MEDICINE: The
GM sliding at home
AIDS children of
but soaring in
Rumania
Europe?
In a cruel sequel to years of
General Motors can learn a
political repression,
few lessons from its dynamic,
hundreds of youngsters in
market-sensitive offshoot
hospitals and orphanages
across the Atlantic.
have become infected.
An
American taxpayers are
antiseizure drug may do
rushing to file their returns
more harm than good.
by wire, which brings refunds
in less than three weeks.
74
Barbarians and liars
populate a flurry of books
about the '80s.
Robert Ball
RELIGION: Is
on the West German mark.
Mario Cuomo
going to hell?
A warning from a bishop to
New York's pro-choice
Catholic Governor resurrects
old questions about
translating religious
teachings into public policy.
68
75
LIVING:
FOOD: The nuking
"Touching
of America's
is funner"
palates
At museums for children
Microwave ovens do not kill
across the U.S., kids like
food; it is the people who use
learning with hands-on,
them. Zappity-doo-dah
climb-on exhibits that let
cooking means farewell to
them explore everything from
the old-time grilled cheese
coal mines to taste buds.
sandwich. Is a crunchy bagel
also an endangered species?
80
86
SHOW BUSINESS:
ART: A charivari of
John Goodman,
Georgian England
scene stealer
from a satirist's
Without skipping a beat as
hand
Roseanne Barr's husband on
Thomas Rowlandson's
TV's top-rated sitcom, he
drawings and watercolors at
has emerged as the hottest
the Frick Collection in New
character actor in
York City are friezes of dense
Hollywood. The big guy
and rowdy life in gaming
is on a roll.
room and salon.
95
96
12 Letters
78 Press
84 Books
93 People
Cover:
18 Interview
82 Cinema
91 Behavior
98 Essay
Gorbachev photograph by Sergei Guneyev-Novosti;
42 World
82 Law
91 Milestones
Lenin photograph from Sovfoto
5
LIFE AFTER LENIN
Newsweek Gorbachev's Biggest Gamble
February 19, 1990 : $2.00
Free! Breakthrough in South
Newsweek
Special Report
Life without Lenin:
Gorbachev's biggest
gamble
20
"Hard lessons to learn"
26
Misgivings in Moscow: the
European model
27
The Germanys: the rush
to unify
28
A choice of chaos over
repression
29
National Affairs
Mission to nowhere:
stepping up the
drug war
32
Quayle's quandary:
fixing his image
34
International
Mandela is free: breakthrough
in South Africa
36
The threat of a white
backlash
41
The leader no one knows
44
A surprising statesman
51
Business
A golden boy's toughest sell
52
South Africa's hope for the future: The president and the prisoner
Deep pockets for biotech
54
Robert J. Samuelson
56
Freedom for Mandela
Lifestyle
The moment had finally come. Last week South African President F. W. de Klerk
Health: The city as patient
58
announced the long-awaited release of Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist
Sports: Another money mess
60
Knockout in Tokyo
60
prisoner who has become a worldwide symbol of the struggle against apartheid.
Medicine: Watching the
The move caused a backlash from right-wing whites but was greeted in segregat-
babies die
63
ed townships with euphoria. It may eventually end international sanctions
Television: Andy Rooney pays
a painful price
63
against South Africa. Mandela's freedom alone, however, will not be enough. The
road to a peaceful solution remains cratered with obstacles. International: Page 36
The Arts
Theater: And now, live
theater from L.A.
64
Movies: Down and out in
Life Without Lenin
Hollywood
66
Books: Farewell, my unlovely
66
After 72 years, the Soviet Union
Art: Africa meets the West
68
gave up on one-party rule and settled
instead for the benevolent dictator-
Society
Justice: Breaking the death
ship of Mikhail Gorbachev. The deci-
barrier
72
sion to abandon this legacy of Lenin
Ideas: Dirty little secret about
crack: hyping doesn't help
74
was the boldest of Gorbachev's ca-
Media: Saving the "throwaway
reer. In scrapping the Communist
people"
77
Party's leading role, Gorbachev
Environment: Try to follow
the pea
78
strengthened his own hold on pow-
er but risked dangerous instability as
Departments
the party that now dominates
Periscope
6
My Turn
10
every Soviet institution begins to
Letters
12
New era: Under a poster of the revolutionary leader
split apart. Special Report: Page 20
Perspectives
19
Newsmakers
71
Transition
71
Meg Greenfield
80
Letters to the Editor should be sent to NEWSWEEK, 444 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022, and subscription inquiries to NEWSWEEK, The
NEWSWEEK Building, Livingston, N.J. 07039. NEWSWEEK (ISSN 0028-9604), February 19, 1990, Volume CXV, No. 8, is published weekly, $41.08a
Cover: Photo by Mark Peters
year, by NEWSWEEK, Inc., 444 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. Second Class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional
mailing offices. POSTMASTERS: Send address changes to NEWSWEEK, The NEWSWEEK Building, Livingston, N.J. 07039.
for NEWSWEEK.
NEWSWEEK FEBRUARY 19, 1990 3
© 1990 NEWSWEEK, INC.: 444 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.