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Offers results on a `U.S. News' inquiry which finds the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), America's elite spy agency, plagued by incompetence and fraud. Mishandling defectors; Sitting on intelligence; Fraudulent recruiting and reporting; Sex and corruption. INSETS: Casting light on a shadowy agency;At the Bonn station (Germany);A spy's dictionary.

Discusses how a single round from a mortar has prompted the United States and its European allies to take one more step into the tangled civil war in the former Yugoslavia. Death of 68 civilians in Sarajevo's marketplace; Reaction of President Bill Clinton; Ethnic cleansing; Suggestion that the one mortar round is influencing a policy that will not end the suffering in the Balkans but may create the comforting illusion that America at last has acted decisively.

Focuses on the foreign-policy problems facing the Clinton adiministration and the bewilderment that it seems to have over approaching these problems. Administration has yet to reconcile it foreign-policy goals; Groping for new ideas in dealing with North Korea; Possible action in Haiti; The most pressing challenge for the United States in Bosnia; Discussion of Somalia; More.

Suggests that there is no shortage of conflict between civilizations these days, and in this age of global media, global marketing and global migrations, the boundaries between civilizations are becoming harder to find. How some of the worst and best habits of not-Western civilizations are not indigenous at all but were learned from the West; Examples including Serbian ethnic cleansing and Muslim rage fueled in part by German philosophy.

Discusses how President-elect Bill Clinton will deal with an America that has no foreign policy. Former President George Bush has failed to bequeath his successor even the foundation of a new foreign policy consensus; Clinton has no foreign policy mandate; The likely trouble spots in the world; World trade talks; Clinton will face difficulty in many areas; Russia; The Middle East; North American free trade; The Balkans; Collapsing peace plans.

Examines how the game of baseball has changed over the years. Commissioner Fay Vincent is gone from the game, at least in part, because at a time when some politicians want to lead America by feeding the centrifugal forces tearing the country apart, he tried to bridge the widening chasm between baseball's owners and the players. How baseball has mirrored the nation's growing pains with uncanny accuracy; Baseball has been a symbol to Americans.

Focuses on the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego. Evolvement of conventions into spectacles produced mainly to entertain the audience; Efforts of Republicans to produce the best show ever, in order to compete with HBO and network sitcoms; Why production was a smashing success; How Americans are tuning out the conventions; Realization that they are being manipulated.

States that former President George Bush is privately predicting that Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole will be the 1996 Republican presidential nominee. Why Bush supports Dole; Bush's belief that Dole should name retired General Colin Powell as his vice presidential running mate.

Discusses James Woolsey's job as the new director of central intelligence. Woolsey will oversee a $29 billion annual budget; Unknown as to the direction of the intelligence community; The need to change the CIA and the intelligence bureaucracy; The problem of intelligence work; The numerous debacles in recent years; More.

Speculates whether or not Rupert Murdoch is poised to buy CNN. Meeting between Murdoch and John Malone, head of Tele-Communications Inc., America's largest cable company; Possibility that Ted Turner could sell Turner Broadcasting; Murdoch's interest in CNN, Turner's world-wide news operation.

Discusses plans of President Bill Clinton to mount a values blitz in an attempt to set himself apart from the Republicans. His emphasis on personal responsibility and sacrifice; When and where his campaign will be kicked off.

Focuses on controversy over whether Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offices should have paid agents who allegedly committed human rights abuses. Debate whether to renege on an agreement to pay an informant who helped finger Carlos the Jackal, one of the world's most notorious terrorists; Details.

Discusses how National Security Advisor Anthony Lake has informed United States allies that if renewed peace efforts in Bosnia don't succeed, the Clinton administration will provide arms and training to the struggling Bosnian government. Efforts of White House to persuade a skeptical Congress not to override President Bill Clinton's veto of congressional efforts to end the arms embargo against Bosnia; Comments by Lake.

Discusses how on November 8, 1994, the great Democratic coalition of liberals, working people, minorities and southerners that Franklin Delano Roosevelt assembled 62 years ago finally collapsed. How its fall transformed the political landscape both in Congress and in state governments; Why the Democrats are partly victims of their own success.