Vol. 125 No. 16

NATION

"We in the U.S. Are Suckers for Style"

American Notes Defense
No Nukes in Shanghai, Please

American Notes Earthquakes
Don't Sit Under the Old Oak Tree

American Notes Health
No Crying Over This Spilt Milk

American Notes
The Administration Doing the Cabinet Shuffle

American Notes The CIA
Protesting Campus Recruiting

Asian
Contras Aid for Kampuchea's rebels?

Battle for Hearts and Minds
The Sandinistas and CONTRAS vie for U.S. support

Jake Skywalker
A Senator boards the shuttle

Old Furies
The result of "awful advice"?

Same Verdict
Recanting to no avail

The Guys of Texas

Training Friends and Scaring Foes
Those are the real goals of the big U.S. maneuvers in Honduras

Up in the Air After Moscow's Gambit
The Administration does summit somersaults

WORLD

Albania Stalin's Disciple
Enver Hoxha: 1908-1985

China Peking Rock
A dose of spiritual pollution

Drugs the Big Catch
Mexico nets El Pedrino

El Salvador Rebel Attack
A hamlet buries its dead

Pakistan "Dirty, Deadly Game"
Fears of a tougher Soviet line on Afghanistan

Sri Lanka the Tamil Tigers' Threat
Separatist guerrillas and the army gird for a showdown battle

Sudan a Joyful, Fragile Revival
After taking over, the new regime confronts a mountain of problems

World Notes Guatemala
Worries About a Coup

World Notes Lebanon
Milestone of Despair

World Notes South Africa
Cursing the Darkness

World Notes Soviet Union
A Question of Isms

World Notes Spain
Death At Dinnertime

SOCIETY

Bullish About the Buck (Living)

Flying in Confusion (Living)

The Traveling Dollar (Living)
Millions go abroad on the greatest sight-seeing and shopping spree ever

Why Pricey Imports Stay That Way (Living)

In Texas: Spreading the Word (American Scene)

The Fine Art of Catching Liars (Behavior)
A quick how-to course for those who are frequently deceived

PRESS

Challenge to Hard Reporting
An appeals court ruling creates Malice in Wonderland

RELIGION

Abrupt Exit
Woman evangelist's goodbye

Sun Myung Moon's Goodwill Blitz
With its prophet imprisoned, a church steps up its propaganda

BUSINESS

"Buy More Foreign Goods" (Economy & Business)
Under fire from the U.S., Nakasone asks the Japanese to boost imports

Business Notes Employee Relations (Economy & Business)
Du Pont's Retirement Rush

Business Notes Financial Services (Economy & Business)
Big-City Bankers on the March

Business Notes Government (Economy & Business)
Securities Braking the Freewheelers

Business Notes Taxes (Economy & Business)
Moving in Slo-Mo At the Irs

Business Notes Telecommunications (Economy & Business)
Will Phone Callers Speak Up?

The Great Takeover Debate (Economy & Business)
Relentless merger wars raise many disturbing questions

EDUCATION

Cracking the Sat Code
A new book blasts the leading college-entrance test

LAW

Kings of Catastrophe
A little-known Minneapolis firm gets the largest Bhopal suit

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

"I Go Back to Methuselah!" (Show Business)
Rex Harrison opens on Broadway in a drawing room

Best Sellers (Books)

Cassette Guys Tokyo Woes (Books)
by Bruce Jay Friedman Fine; 187 pages; $14.95

Editor's Choice (Books)

In Search of Maxi-Audiences (Video)
Space Tries to Boost the Mini-Series Form Back into Orbit

Pride and Power Selections From George Eliot's Letters Edited by Gordon S. Haight Yale University; 567 pages; $25 (Books)

Revenge of the Male Weepie Mask (Cinema)
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich; Screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan

Strike Up the Bandwagon We Are the World Raises Money, Spirits (Music)
and the Roof

Symbolist with Roller Skates (Art)
Francesco Clemente ranges unevenly from mystery to voyeurism

Uncle Gatsby in Connecticut the Prick of Noon (Books)
by Peter De Vries; Little, Brown; 233 pages; $14.95

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A Letter From the Publisher (Publisher's Letter)

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