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Five men kneel motionless in the windowless cell as they await inspection by the guards. Only a faint light glows from the single electric bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Human Pawns in a Sordid Game | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

As darkness fell, the scene grew ever more surreal. A car came racing up the hill, snatched and chased by licking flames. In front of us, the hulks of other cars were blazing. A man caked in soot appeared, looking for his horse. As night began to deepen, the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: In The Blazing Eye of the Inferno | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

At times, though, the demonstrations generated more annoyance than sympathy. On Wednesday a large group of protesters outside the convention hall confronted a line of police officers in full riot gear. In the resulting scuffle, 80 demonstrators were handcuffed, loaded into buses and taken to headquarters to be booked on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Losing Battle With AIDS | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

Isolated from much of the world, largely on its own volition, Iran initially sought to prove its self-sufficiency. Tehran sent signals that foreign rescue workers and sniffer dogs were not wanted and, at first, forbade direct rescue flights from abroad. Soon, however, the extent of the destruction forced Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran The Hour of Doom | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

The political revolution that swept through Eastern Europe last year was just the beginning. Now comes a rush of new business ventures that will open the region to the rest of the world and change the way East Europeans work, play and shop. In Hungary, General Electric paid $150 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Kids on the Bloc | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

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