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Senior Writer George Church, who wrote this week's cover story, his 68th for TIME, found that the problem defied quick explanation. "When you must delve into legal concepts of negligence and the intricacies of insurance-industry accounting in the same story," he says, "you have a considerably more complex story than usual." Many Americans, Church suggests, are only now realizing how deeply they are affected by rising insurance rates. "It is," says Church, "one of those odd things that you never think about until it gets bad enough, and then suddenly it hits you in the face...
...Mexican relations. The fact that we are neighbors creates a very complex relationship. There is a great potential for cooperation but also for conflicts. The matter of migration attests to this fact. The drug-trafficking issue has caused some problems. The U.S. is the No. 1 drug-consumer market in the world, and is thus a powerful magnet, which in turn serves to foster this kind of activity in Mexico. The Mexican government is making a considerable effort in drug control in spite of our economic crisis...
...their fight will benefit their father's philanthropic interests, which were dramatically undercut only in the last will. But the speculation is that they really expect a settlement offer to forestall years of legal delays. Meanwhile, Judge Lambert has asked for the jury's patience as they examine this complex test of wills, in which "we are all working hard." Shoveling dirt can be hard work indeed, and it is expected to take more than two months in her courtroom alone to get to the bottom of it all. --By Richard Lacayo. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
After months of halting, halfhearted gestures toward racial reform, South Africa last week finally took a step that may significantly alter its detested system of apartheid. The government announced proposals to abolish the pass laws, a complex web of 34 regulations and proclamations that have severely restricted the ability of blacks to move freely within the country. The laws, said an official white paper announcing the reform, are a "relic of the past" and will be replaced by a non-discriminatory program of "planned, positive urbanization." Declared State President P.W. Botha: "Today we have arrived at the emancipation from guardianship...
...last week, fighting in the 6½-year-old revolt of Afghan rebels against Soviet invasion forces reached its fiercest level. In an all-out drive to cut the guerrillas' main supply line from Pakistan, Soviet troops overran a key stronghold in Jawar in eastern Afghanistan. The mile-long underground complex was a major training and storage site for the anti-Communist mujahedin forces. Meanwhile, waves of war-planes blasted insurgent positions along the Afghan-Pakistani border as some 10,000 Soviet and Afghan troops advanced on the ground. "This is the worst fighting we've ever seen," said a guerrilla...