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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: 90537 Folder ID Number: 90537-005 Folder Title: Magazines, February 26, 1990 Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: V 12 11 6 3 THE PERILS OF WORKING PART-TIME U.S.News FEBRUARY 26, 1990 $1.95 THE MAN WHO CONQUERED COMMUNISM THE NEW EUROPE by VACLAV HAVEL, Playwright- President of Czechoslovakia 09 02239 0 140066 U.S.News February 26, 1990 Vol. 108 No. 8 BUSINESS N 6 Letters to the Editor D 44 Wiring the world. How U.S. telecommunications firms are plugging CURRENTS E J into the global information business 10 One Week: An antidote for hatred FG 47 The disaster that never happened. The 13 A Moscow muddle Those stubborn year-old plant-closing law proves more coca growers The U.S. birth-control bombast than bombshell lag Which Trump holds the aces? 49 Economic Outlook: Sylvia Nasar on 17 John Leo on Andy Rooney improvements in Japan's trade stance 18 Washington Whispers RANDY JONES FOR USN&WR HORIZONS U.S.NEWS 50 Education: Lessons from the trenches. 20 End of the go-go era Theodore Sizer tries to save our schools 20 A checkup for America's 23 Why criminals do time beyond bars financial engine NEWS YOU CAN USE 24 The life of Riley on murderer's row Wieder 56 Careers: The hex of flex. A flexible 27 Tomorrow: Michael Barone and David R. Gergen on conservatives' triumphs vereinigung schedule may make life more hectic 199Γ 58 Travel: A new age of charter flights. Now WORLD REPORT charters push both service and price COVER Deuts 61 Health: Will fitness now mean arthritis later? Doctors believe exercise won't 28 The rise of the new Europe harm undamaged joints 30 The chance that will not return, by Vaclav Havel 62 Personal computers: When a virus CHANGED makes your PC sneeze. How to rout 33 The prisoner who took the castle these pesky electronic infections 38 Excerpts from Havel's writings 63 Vital Statistics 65 News You Can Use: Bottled water after 40 Showdown in Nicaragua 28 East Germans chant for reunification Perrier; car shopping by computer; a 42 Nelson Mandela's new struggle new look at an old seizure drug 43 Worldgram: Bringing U.S. troops home from the Pacific; Shamir hangs on 67 Editorial: Why America slept 154lbs W=(60kg(9) W=2940 w=mg & KEVIN HORAN FOR USN&WR ROBERT AZZI-WOODFIN CAMP ILLUSTRATION BY BONNIE TIMMONS FOR USN&WR 44 American companies 50 Thriving on intellectual courses wiring the world 56 Overloading a part-time schedule COVER: Photo by Alain Keler-Odyssey/Matrix for USN&WR 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 CAN 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 Printed in the U.S.A. USE@ WORLDGRAM® WASHINGTON WHISPERS TOMORROW® 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. 26, 1990 1100 $2.50 FEBRUARY 26, 1990 GERMANY: 1- The Rush to Unity TIME PREDATOR'S FALL The collapse of Drexel Burnham, the house that junk built, is only the latest of Wall Street's woes. So where are the tears? Deposed Dealmaker Michael 09 Milken 10090 D 724404 1 Vol. 135, No. 9 TIME THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE BUSINESS: The fall of Drexel Burnham brings a money-mad era to an end The most powerful firm on Wall Street in the Roaring Eighties was at the center of a gold-rush culture that bankrolled corporate raiders and often seemed consumed by vanity, ego and greed. Drexel vanished almost overnight last week when its parent company, a victim of the very junk-bond market that Drexel had created, filed for bankruptcy. The firm's legacy is a debt-laden corporate America and a backlash against excess. RICHARD VOGEL JAISON 46 WORLD: East and West agree on a process to unify Germany On both sides, the cost of unification begins to sink in. In a TIME interview, Nelson Mandela talks about a negotiated future. From Tadzhikistan, an exclusive report on an Islam-tinged revolt. FUR JAUBER luber UMWELT KEIN BUTAUF 12 TIME (ISSN 0040-781X) published A. Ripp, Treasurer; Harry M. Johnston, Secretary. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. © 1990 The in the United Magazine States is 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. Time Inc. Regi- Company. and in the All foreign rights countries where TIME magazine circulates. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to TIME, P.O. Box 30601, Tampa, Fla. 33630-0601. For subscription queries, nald K. Brack Jr., President; reserved. Joseph Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. TIME and the Red Border Design are protected through trademark registration call Customer Service at 1-800-541-2000. 2 FEBRUARY 26, 1990 NATION: This year it's easy being green MARK RICHARDS-SIPA California's oily beaches highlight the environment as the hottest issue in U.S. politics, and candidates on both coasts are scrambling to prove their colors. In Alaska, Joseph Hazelwood's lawyers hope to show that he was a victim, not a villain, of the Exxon Valdez spill. Why is George Bush rocking along with a 76% approval rating? His low profile helps. Despite being dragged into court, Ronald Reagan remains serene. 32 FOOD: Yuppiedom HEALTH: The loses its fizz dearth of birth- U.S. health nuts go on the control methods wagon as Perrier pulls its American women are product from shelves frustrated that they have so worldwide after a benzene few choices, especially when scare. If the source is impure, compared with what is is anything safe? available in Europe. Cosmic rays pose risks for frequent flyers. 43 44 MUSIC: Moscow welcomes a famous exile After 16 years in America, Mstislav Rostropovich hears Midde "wonderful words of freedom" in his homeland as his National Symphony Orchestra WOWS Soviet audiences. PEOPLE: The Trumps' 70 gaudiest spectacle yet: their marital split Donald the dealmaker and Ivana, ESSAY: Is the his glittering Czechmate, are awash world picking in power and glitz. The collapse of on Israel? their marriage has to be like Few countries have been as everything else in their lives: flashy and very public. As friends, lawyers subjected to criticism as Israel has for its treatment of and publicists choose sides, the tabloids and TV go into a frenzy, the Palestinian uprising. How fair is the attack? A while rumors fly about infidelities (his) and demands (hers) for a fair double standard exposed. share of the $1.7 billion fortune. SYGMA 64 77 6 Letters 56 Milestones 62 Sport 72 Education Cover: 45 Technology 59 Video 68 Cinema Photograph by 56 Press 61 Fashion 71 Books Jim Smeal-Ron Galella, Ltd. 3 February 26, 1990 : $2.00 A UNITED GERMANY THE NEW SUPERPOWER 09 18201 0 706285 8 Newsweek Special Report A united Germany: the new superpower 16 Countdown to unification 22 New history for new Germans 22 The East's hollow society 26 "Kultur" bridges a canyon 28 Going for the gold 29 Goodbye, Pacific Century? 30 Germany: renewed but not redeemed 34 National Affairs The war of the Trumps 38 Politics and the pill 42 Selma's unfinished business 44 New pressures on Barry 44 Women politicos on the move 45 International West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl greets East Germans in Dresden South Africa: talking about talks 46 Mandela the man, by Germany United: The New Superpower Nadine Gordimer 47 Nicaragua: voting on the As Germany's rush to reunify won U.S., British, French and Soviet acquiescence revolution 48 last week, the German people were saying, "We are somebody again." With 80 Business million people, the united country will dwarf its European neighbors. Its The downfall of Drexel 50 combined military will be the Continent's most formidable. And its export-driven Perrier loses its fizz 53 economy will turn it into a global power once again. For victims of historic Jane Bryant Quinn 54 German aggression, it is, to say the least, an unnerving spectacle. Is the new Lifestyle Germany a threat? Special Report: Page 16 Food: The zap generation 56 Sports: When Buster beat up Godzilla 58 NEW YORK POST DAILY NEWS Television: New varieties of soap 60 War of the Trumps Made pols about BEST Desold: TRUMP THE WAR Travel: Poor rich Aspen 60 The epic marriage of a sleazy decade fell TVANA The Mind: User-friendly therapy 61 SEX noisily apart as billionaire Donald Trump BETTER The Arts I'VE walked out on his Czech-born wife, EVER DEAL' Photography: Maverick's eye 62 Ivana. It was a classic scandal, with a Books: A guide to Egypt's soul 64 HAD' Mrs. brands Donald's How not to write blonde in the background and a battle $25M Movies: "Mountains of the fraed for millions looming in the courts, and it Moon": Victorian adventure 65 Getting a bug to crawl 65 touched off a frenzy of tabloid headlines "Revenge" 66 and lip-smacking TV footage. Nation: Page 38 Music: Rostropovich returns 66 Society Drexel's Downfall Ideas: Rediscovering With stunning swiftness, Drexel Malcolm X 68 Justice: How's your lawyer's Burnham Lambert, the Wall Street left jab? 70 investment bank that fueled the Education: Berkeley opts 1980s takeover wars, filed for bank- for diversity 71 Westmar's white knight 71 ruptcy last week. A few days later the firm hardly existed. Drexel's un- Departments Periscope 4 doing: the collapse of junk bonds, Letters 10 the weapon that transformed it into a Perspectives 15 Massive layoffs: At Drexel in New York Newsmakers 55 powerhouse. Business: Page 50 Transition 55 George F. Will 72 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 26, 1990, Volume CXV, No. 9, is published weekly, $41.08a Cover: Illustration by Jean year, by NEWSWEEK, Inc., 444 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. Second Class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional Tuttle. mailing offices. POSTMASTERS: Sand address changes to NEWSWEEK, The NEWSWEEK Building, Livingston, N.J. 07039. © 1990 NEWSWEEK, INC.: 444 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NEWSWEEK FEBRUARY 26, 1990 3