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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.