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ONE YEAR AFTER KUWAIT
U.S.News
INSIDE THE
MIDEAST PEACE
BAZAAR
AUGUST 5, 1991
$2.50
AMERICA'S
9
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BEST
HOSPITALS
EXCLUSIVE
RANKINGS
c GUERIN MD
How to find
top care in 15
specialties
from AIDS to
urology
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STEVE BENSON FOR USN&WR
ALAIN KELER ODYSSEY/MATRIX
U.S.News
FRANKLY, I'D
RATHER BE
FISHING...
AUGUST 5, 1991
VOL. III
NO. 6
4 Letters to the Editor
OUTLOOK
6 A letter from a lover of leisure
8 Pursuing MIA photos Heart
murmurs
Special Olympics
The new summer camps
Towing
Isaac Bashevis Singer
THE
15 Washington Whispers
U.S.NEWS
16 Last of the big-time summits
16
22
18 Commentary: Richard Perle
on arms control
The last summit? Arms control
The long road to peace. Extremists on both sides still may
19 Was there a BCCI coverup?
matters less and contacts
scuttle Middle East peace talks.
20 Tomorrow: Michael Barone
with local Soviet
and Steven V. Roberts on
officials matter more.
veto strategies
ILLUSTRATION BY
DEVIS GREBU FOR USN&WR
WORLD REPORT
22 The gulf war's aftermath: A
glimmer of peace in the
Mideast
24 Iraq, defiant forever
26 The war's biggest loser, the
PLO
27 Worldgram: South African
28
scandals; guerrillas in Peru
Bumpy ride. World oil prices have risen since the gulf war; now they may be headed even higher.
BUSINESS
KEVIN HORAN FOR USN&WR
28 Why oil prices could rise
32 Is a double-dip recession in
the cards?
NEWS YOU CAN USE
COVER STORY
36 Exclusive U.S. News guide to
America's best hospitals
38 Best of the best: Honor roll of
the top 10
40 Nursing: Hands-on healers
49 Mental health: The
revolution in psychiatric care
53 The U.S. News survey: The
best medical centers, from
AIDS to urology
67 Directory: Hospital profiles
36
72 Editorial: Saddam the
survivor
Rushed. A nurse heads for surgery at a Mayo Foundation hospital with 53 operating rooms.
COVER: Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore; photo by Kevin Horan for USN&WR
Inset photo by Scott Applewhite AP
Copyright © 1991, 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,
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U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 5, 1991
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AUGUST 5, 1991 $2.50
B.C.C.I.: The Scandal Spreads
TIME
Was It Worth It?
The Mess in Kuwait Saddam's Staying Power
A Rocky Road to Mideast Peace
31
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Vol. 138 No. 5
AUGUST 5, 1991
TIME
THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE
CHRISTOPHER STAR FOR TIME
COVER STORY
32 WORLD:
Was It Worth a War?
Saddam Hussein still defies
the world, and Kuwait is
rushing back to the past.
But there are halting steps toward a
Mideast peace conference
20 NATION:
A Special Relationship
Bush and Gorbachev are using
their personal rapport to smooth
a superpower rapprochement
44 BUSINESS:
B.C.C.I. Heats Up
Governments scurry to control
the global banking scandal
32 / UNDER THE SMOKY SKY, IT IS BUSINESS AS USUAL
HEALTH What? What? I can't hear you
50
MEDICINE Why doctors are angry at Bush
52
SCIENCE How some radio pulses may reveal a planet
53
PRESS The new nattering nabobs: Do media bashers really count?
DIRCK HALSTEAD FOR TIME
54
HISTORY The new Civil Rights Museum: Is it real or is it Memorex?
56
BOOKS James McClure's latest yarn of South African mystery
The passing of the spinner of East European Jewish tales
58
RELIGION Repent or not; the era of the superchurch is at hand
62
SHOW BUSINESS John Sayles is a man for all media
64
CINEMA The summer heroine: fierce and sinewy, but the same old babe
66
20 / SUCH GOOD FRIENDS
ESSAY Charles Krauthammer bids arms control a not-too-fond farewell
68
DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS
8
CRITICS' VOICES
14
MILESTONES
61 PEOPLE
65
COVER Photomontage. Kuwait's burning oil fields by Christopher Morris-
Black Star for TIME; Saddam Hussein by Susan May Tell-SABA
TIME (ISSN 0040-781X) is published weekly for $61.88 per year, by The Time Inc. Magazine Company. Principal Office: Time & Life
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44 / SKEWERED BY SCANDAL
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ASSAD'S PEACE PLAN
Newsweek A Talk With Syria's Strongman
®
August 5, 1991 : $2.50
SHOULD WOMEN FIGHT
TO KILL?
In the Air-But Not in the Trenches,
Says a Decorated Combat Vet
By Col. David H. Hackworth
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Newsweek
Special Report
The Mideast's moment of
truth?
16
Assad: Mr. Peacemaker?
18
A lack of Israeli trust
19
"It's up to the Israelis"
20
National Affairs
The right to fight (the cover)
22
War and the second sex, by
Col. David H. Hackworth 24
"Women have what it takes" 30
The GOP's civil war over
abortion
31
Bias begins at home
33
A case of quota hypocrisy
33
Trial by media fire
34
International
Rewriting communism
36
Unhappy on the Eastern front 38
Female soldiers apply camouflage paint during exercises at Fort Bragg, N.C.
The color of money
39
Should Women Be Asked to Shoot to Kill?
Society
They earned their stripes in the Persian Gulf, and many of the nation's women in
Mind: The unthinkable crime
40
Education: Coming to America
43
uniform say it's time to erase the last barrier to equality in military service-a law
Environment: Trouble in the
prohibiting females from serving in combat roles. This week the U.S. Senate
trout family
45
takes up a measure to let women be combat pilots. The issue has ignited sharp
Religion: A right-wing bishop
moves center stage
46
debate on the potential disruption of U.S. military readiness, but it pivots on one
Aging: Rethinking prostate
key question: are women really ready to be professional killers? Nation: Page 22
surgery
48
Science: If it's a planet
48
The Arts
A Moment of Truth?
Entertainment: Like father, like
daughter
50
By saying "yes" to an American call for a Mideast
Do you still want
peace conference, Syrian President Hafez Assad has
your MTV?
53
suddenly forced the Israelis, the Palestinians and
Movies: A surgeon under the
knife
54
the Americans to face dilemmas in the Middle East
Obsession by the sea
they have long tried to postpone. In a rare on-the-
Books: Revenge of the
Rivethead
55
record interview with NEWSWEEK and The Washing-
The accidental bigamist
ton Post, Assad lays out the reasoning behind his
Knocking down the beer
kings
Syria's wily President Assad
diplomatic masterstroke. Special Report: Page 16
The century's storyteller
59
Business
The Killers Among Us
BCCI: Who knew what?
60
A wrong number?
63
Few crimes mirror human depravity as stark-
A shakeout in services, by
ly as serial sex murders. Last week there was a
Robert J. Samuelson
64
You have to join to pay
65
particularly gruesome illustration. Milwau-
kee police discovered the remains of what
Departments
could be as many as 11 men in a grubby
Periscope
4
apartment-and admitted they may have
My Turn
10
Letters
12
missed a chance to arrest their prime suspect
Perspectives
15
two months ago. Society: Page 40
Sifting through the remains of a horror
Newsmakers
35
Transition
35
Meg Greenfield
66
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