Vol. 125 No. 18

"My Objective Was Reconciliation"
In a revealing interview, Helmut Kohl defends the visit to Bitburg

A Dismal Round of Arms Talks

American Notes Baltimore
A Tank in the Parking Lot

American Notes Defense
Tightening Some Loose Bolts

American Notes Labor
A Teamster Takes the Fifth

American Notes Star Wars
"Pork Barrel in the Sky"

American Notes The Navy
Bypassing a Heart Surgeon

An Author's Forbidden Passage
"I Told Them, As Any Red-Blooded Canadian Would, to . . . "

Cutting Off The
Contra AID The House hands Reagan a setback on Nicaragua policy

House Divided
An election splits Congress

Royal Fetes and Photo Ops
In Europe, an accent on amity

Scratches in the Teflon
On the eve of his trip to Europe, Reagan catches flak at home

Take Two
The Von Bulow trial resumes

The Presidency
A Season of Bad Manners

Argentina Time of Trial
A situation "under control"

Brazil a Nation Mourns
Eulogizing Neves' dream

East Germany Elbe Meeting
A shining moment is relived

Middle East Heading Home
Israel leaves the Bekaa

Soviet Union Shifts in the Kremlin
Gorbachev rejuvenates the Politburo and stresses the need for change

World Notes Australia
Premier Joh, Union Basher

World Notes Disasters
Hell in a Hospital

World Notes Peru
Garcia Plucks a Victory

World Notes Sudan
Reaching Out and Touching

World Notes West Germany
Brouhaha in Bavaria

Another Setback in Louisville (Medicine)
After ten days with a Jarvik-7 heart, Jack Burcham dies

Local Angle
A Texas paper wins a Pulitzer

Pulling Wires
U.P.I. Files for Its Life

A Pioneer Clips Its Wings (Economy & Business)
Pan Am sells its Pacific routes to United

Bogus Shelters for the Stars (Economy & Business)
The government prosecutes its largest tax-fraud case ever

Business Notes Corporations (Economy & Business)
The Man in the Moon Disappears

Business Notes Counterfeits (Economy & Business)
Pirating the World

Business Notes Energy (Economy & Business)
Pummeled At the Pump

Business Notes Trade (Economy & Business)
Japan's Buy-Foreign Blitz

Business Notes Treaties (Economy & Business)
Footloose and Duty Free

Fiddling with the Real Thing (Economy & Business)
Coke changes its flavor for the first time and creates a new Pepsi Challenge

Matters of Taste (Economy & Business)

Selling Junk (Economy & Business)
Popular but precarious bonds

A Philosopher for Everyman At 82,
Mortimer Adler Tirelessly Expounds the Ancient Truths

Awakening a Sleeping Giant the Call (Books)
by John Hersey; Knopf; 701 pages; $19.95

Editors' Choice (Books)

Emblems of a Lost Tradition (Art)
In New York City, superb drawings from the Albertina collection

Prime Time's New First Family (Video)
The Cosby Show Is a Smash But No Groundbreaker

Real People in a Reel Peephole (Cinema)
Three documentaries provoke giggles, anger, nostalgia

Society's Child Once Upon a Time (Books)
by Gloria Vanderbilt Knopf; 301 pages; $16.95