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JANUARY 7, 1991 $2.50
MEN OF THE YEAR
TIME
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The Two
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George Bushes
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Vol. 137, No. I
TIME
THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE
IMAGES: Hope and
tension fill the
pictures of 1990
The heartache and
foreboding of an angry desert
face-off, the dark legacy of a
tyrant, brutal tribal warfare
and the growing pains of
freedom mark a somber year
of wrenching turnabouts.
40
NATION: The war of nerves
intensifies in the gulf
With the U.N. deadline for Iraq to
withdraw fast approaching, Washington
and Baghdad are locked in a test of wills.
Will Philadelphia go bankrupt?
54
WORLD: Push is coming to
shove in the Soviet Union
Gorbachev wins unprecedented power but
can't seem to rule. Is martial law next?
One year later, Romania remains a
mess.
In Israel, a farewell to moderation.
60
4 Milestones
69 Business
79 Technology
6 Letters
73 Cinema
81 Show Business
12 Critics' Voices
77 Behavior
84 Essay
TIME (ISSN 0040-781X) is published weekly with an extra issue in October 1990 for $61.88 per year, by The Time Inc. Magazine
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Principal Office: Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center. New York, N.Y., 10020-1393. Reginald K. Brack additional Jr., Presi-
Cover:
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Photograph for TIME
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JANUARY 7, 1991
MEN OF THE YEAR
George Bush seemed like two Presidents last year:
one displayed a commanding vision of a new world order;
the other showed little vision for his own country.
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DIANA WALKER FOR TIME
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GAMBLER OF THE YEAR
Newsweek Saddam Hussein
January 7, 1991 : $2.50
SADDAM'S ENDGAME
More
Than
Just a
Madman
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Newsweek
Special Report
Saddam's endgame (the cover) 14
Second look at an air war
18
Bush: the administration's
one true hawk
19
More than just a madman
20
The germ-warfare alert
25
Why we can't seem to
understand the Arabs
26
National Affairs
Will Bush be bold on energy? 28
Presidential challengers on ice 30
A Providence banker vanishes 31
Raining pennies-but not
from heaven
31
There goes the neighborhood 35
International
Gorbachev warns of "collapse" 36
Where have all the democrats
gone?
38
A master of manipulation: Honoring the Supreme Leader in Baghdad
The gathering Soviet storm,
by Robert J. Samuelson
40
Gambler of the Year: Saddam Hussein
Outposts of apartheid
41
In China, a missing leader
When he invaded Kuwait in August, Saddam was denounced as a madman. But
reappears
41
since then he has proved to be more: a high-stakes gambler who has manipulated
Business
the media, played to Arab grievances and kept the world off balance. He has
Doing the right thing
42
already helped hobble the U.S. economy and remake global alliances. Now he has
Return of a raider
44
Dean of the Deutsche mark
45
it in his power to avert war-or invite a bloodbath. Special Report: Page 14
For MCA, no walk in the park 45
Society
Heading for a Crackup?
Technology: The gadget gap
46
Justice: Trials of Adam & Eve 48
Mikhail Gorbachev banged the drums of
Religion: How to steal a
university
49
apocalypse last week. Over and over he
Aging: Forever young
49
warned the Soviet Parliament of immi-
The Arts
nent national crackup, as if to justify his
Art: Rauschenberg: back to
rightward drift. In the end, he won the
the future
50
power to rule by decree. But he suffered
Books: Rushdie embraces the
faith
52
humiliation, too: it took two ballots to get
Requiem for a law firm
53
his apparatchik vice presidential nominee
Papa was a rollin' stone
Gorbachev: More authority, less control
elected. International: Page 36
Movies: A nose for acting
55
Lifestyle
Television: A monster revival
58
Why Nothing Works
Trends: Tattoos go mainstream 60
Family: Daddy is out of the closet 60
You've opened the box, sorted out
Health: Grief counseling for
the cables, read the manual twice-
AIDS victims' colleagues
61
Mind: A fresh view of déjà vu
62
and you still can't figure out how to
program your new VCR. The problem
Departments
isn't that you're not smart enough,
Periscope
6
My Turn
9
but bad design, confusing instruc-
Letters
10
tions-and the sheer complexity of
Perspectives
13
Newsmakers
56
modern gadgets. Society: Page 46
Transition
57
Cover: Photo by Peter Jordan-
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during the months of June and September, $41.08 a year, by NEWSWEEK, Inc., 444 Madison venue, New York, N.Y. 10022. Second Class postage paid at
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