Vol. 127 No. 17
COVER
Wanting It Both Ways
NATION
A Lady Killer Stalks Atlanta
Four murders stir fears
A Twisted Trail of Blood
It led to a Miami shootout
American Notes Alaska
Wandering into Trouble
American Notes Babies
Motherhood Minus Mom
American Notes Congress
Missing: the 1987 Budget
American Notes Oregon
Thunderbird All Around, Garcon
American Notes Space
A Titanic Fizzle
A Lethal Video Game
Hitting the Source
U.S. Bombers strike at Libya's author of terrorism, dividing Europe and threatening a rash of retaliations
So Close, Yet So Far
American journalists get the guided Libyan tour
The Iron Lady Stands Alone
Double Standard for Refugees?
A split over sanctuary
Nation
WORLD
Britain Stringing Along
Making puppets of potentates
Eastern Europe Communism's Old Men
Gorbachev tries to introduce change to the aging party bosses
South Africa Enemies Within
Law reform and vigilante rage
Soviet Union an Endless Odyssey
Stalin's daughter moves again
The Philippines Marcos Seizes the Offensive
The deposed President accuses the U.S. of a coup conspiracy
World Notes Argentina
Bye-Bye to B.A.?
World Notes Britain
Peace in Our Time
World Notes Diplomacy
French Power Dining
World Notes El Salvador
The Military Breaks Ranks
World Notes Haiti
Baby Doc's Cold Cash
SCIENCE
"a Bunch of Little Gnats"
(Environment)
The droning echo of tourist flights through the Grand Canyon
"a Bunch of Little Gnats"
(Environment)
The droning echo of tourist flights through the Grand Canyon
Tree Bandits
(Environment)
Take the aspens and run
HEALTH & MEDICINE
The Career Woman's Disease?
(Medicine)
Endometriosis may afflict as many as 10 million in the U.S.
PRESS
Old-Fashioned Pickax Journalism
Pulitzer gold for the Denver POST and others
RELIGION
Mutual Declarations of Respect
Pope John Paul makes a historic visit to a synagogue
SPORT
Master of the Fairway
Never a false step by either the golfer or the man
STYLE & DESIGN
Basso Profundo and a Bit Wild !
(Design)
A little-known German pioneer wins architecture's top prize
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
In the Dead of the Night
Hard choices and high drama for the raid's planners and pilots
BUSINESS
A Maddening Labor Mismatch
(Economy & Business)
Despite lingering unemployment, the U.S. faces growing worker shortages
Beef Glut
(Economy & Business)
A move that cows the ranchers
Business Notes Advertising
(Economy & Business)
Call Cosby for Image Cleaning
Business Notes Government
(Economy & Business)
Changing Small to Not At All
Business Notes Labor
(Economy & Business)
Less United We Stand
Business Notes Lawyers
(Economy & Business)
The $65,000 Minimum Wage
Business Notes Stocks 60
(Economy & Business)
Minutes ON WALL STREET
Can We Talk?
(Economy & Business)
Kurzweil's computer will listen
The British Admen Are Coming!
(Economy & Business)
Madison Avenue buzzes as Saatchi grabs a big American agency
Westward Ho to Expo 86
(Economy & Business)
Vancouver's world's fair sparks a building and tourist boom
EDUCATION
Those Hot Colleges on the Climb
Fast-rising and ambitious institutions are now challenging the nation's elite schools
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
"Is This the Family Gun, Dad?" At Close Range
(Cinema)
Directed by James Foley; Screenplay by Nicholas Kazan
A Tale of the Acorn and the Tree a Perfect Spy
(Books)
by John le Carre; Knopf; 475 pages; $18.95
Bookends
(Books)
Home and Away Principia Scriptoriae
(Theater)
by Richard Nelson
Saran-Wrapped Social Security
(Theater)
by Andrew Bergman
Sore Glums Absolute Beginners
(Cinema)
Directed by Julien Temple Screenplay by Richard Burridge, Christopher Wicking and Don MacPherson
The Mandarin and the Thief
(Books)
Simone de Beauvoir: 1908-1986; Jean Genet: 1910-1986
Victoriana Family Secrets: a Writer's Search for His Parents and
(Books)
His Past by David Leitch Delacorte; 242 pages; $17.95
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TO OUR READERS
A Letter From the Publisher
(Publisher's Letter)
ESSAY
Going It Alone