ANALYSIS
Coping With Ceausescu's Legacy
Robert R. King
The Man Who Would Be India's Prime Minister
Sumit Ganguly

COMMENTARY
Needed: New Policies Toward Cambodia
Lawrence W. Reed
Avoiding Extremes in Our China Policy
Paul H. Kreisberg
U.S.-Soviet Scientific Exchanges: A Case for Caution
Juliana Geran Pilon
Nigeria: Model of African Reform
Michael Johns
Why We Need a Concert of Europe Now
Morton A. Kaplan

 

BEAUTY
Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud
Pamela Lister

EDUCATION
Ants and Plants and Kids and Nets
Karen Karvonen

FAMILY
Partial to Pets
William Sayres

FOOD
Everyday Exotica
Robin Easson

GARDENS
Tough Plants for Tough Times
Jacqueline Heriteau

LEISURE
Family Getaways
Bill London

PROFILE
The Peace Corps: Coming of Age
Catharine Reeve

FEATURED BOOK: Hwang Sun-won's Shadows of a Sound
Introduction
Editor

Memory and Epiphany
J. Martin Holman

A Visit With Hwang Sun-wŏn
J. Martin Holman

Anatomy of a Story
Marshall R. Pihl

Lost Souls
Bruce Fulton

FEATURED BOOK: Václav Havel's The Power of the Powerless
The President Wrote Absurdist Plays
Josef Skvorecky

Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
The Pornographic Within
Larry D. Nachman
FREEDOM AND TABOO:
Robert S. Randall

Acts of Imagination
Louis Owens
THE ANCIENT CHILD
Scott Momaday

ART
South America's Answer to SoHo
Jason Edward Kaufman
The Delights of Dalí
Mavis Guinard

DANCE
Dancing Under the Umbrella: England Discovers Spice
Barbara Newman

DESIGN
George Ohr: Mississippi's Mad Potter
Karen S. Chambers

FILM
Intolerance Revisited
Lawrence O'Toole

MUSIC
Shostakovich With Strings
Philip Kennicott

PERSPECTIVES
Roseanne: TV's All-American Mother
Brad Miner

PHOTOGRAPHY
The Marvelous Extravagance of Life
Darwin Marable

POETRY
Of Ghosts, Jubilees, and Picnics
William Bedford

THEATER
Glasnost Comes to Bulgaria
John Elsom

IMPACTS
Welding: The World of Joining
Karl F. Graff and Robert M. Rivett

NATURE WALK
The Eastern Coyote
Dwight G. Smith

SCIENCE ESSAY
Getting to Eureka
Solomon H. Snyder

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
John Vincent Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer
Clark R. Mollenhoff

FOLK WISDOM
The Night Watch: Folktales from Czechoslovakia
Michael Krondl

HERITAGE
Slovenian Heritage in America
Edward Gobetz

PEOPLES
The Hare and Their Dogs: Human-Animal Bonds in an Arctic Community
Joel Savishinksky
Hidden Valleys of the Himalayas
Elaine Brook and Lhakpa Sherpa