Time Magazine September 9 1991 Power Vacuum in USSR * Are Gay Men Born That Way?

NATION Abortion Whose Side Are You On? For weary Wichitans, the protests may finally be subsiding, but the healing has yet to begin Accidents: Hell on the Underground: Hell on the Underground (American Notes) Hell on the Underground Law Enforcement: Cruisin' with The Homeboys: Cruisin' with The Homeboys (American Notes) Cruisin' with The Homeboys Rescues: Surgical Strike (American Notes) Surgical Strike Taxation: Pricey Points Of View (American Notes) Pricey Points Of View An Mia Breakthrough? (Grapevine) Calling Mr. Clean (Grapevine) East-West Relations: After The War Bush is cautious as the collapse of Moscow's empire offers new challenges for the U.S. I'm Having Second Thoughts About Leaving . . . (Grapevine) Just Call Him Faux Pas Mitterrand (Grapevine) Racial Unrest: An Eye for an Eye After a traffic death, a murder and four days of riots, tensions remain high between blacks and Jews in Brooklyn She Knew What Was Coming (Grapevine) The Presidency: Rebuilding a Moral Framework Rebuilding a Moral Framework Vox Pop: Sep. 9, 1991 (Grapevine) WORLD A Chastened Character In Search of a Role Humiliated but determined to hang on to his powers, Mikhail Gorbachev exerts his formidable strength A Communist, a Patriot, a Soldier A Country of Skeptics In the provinces, Russians greet the upheaval with anxiety and wonder if their daily lives will change America Abroad And Now for the Sequels The Soviet Union: Starting at Year Zero (Cover Stories) Forgotten But Not Gone Into The Void Suddenly the old Soviet Union is gone. Now new leaders are improvising on a grand scale to shape a new nation -- or nations -- from the chaos. Perils of Nationhood The Baltics have their independence back, and foreign recognition, but they won't be able to break Moscow's grip right away Saved by the Bottle The Party Is Over But after 70 years of controlling everything from nurseries to nuclear weapons, can the communists be counted out? U.S.S.R. Or B.U.S.T. What About the Nukes?