Vol. 128 No. 19
NATION
American Notes Air Traffic
Less Friendly Skies
American Notes Drug Abuse
Testing the Waters
American Notes Government
Leaky Ship of State
American Notes Military
Aid Jets for a Friend
American Notes Presidents
Postmark Monticello
Call to Battle
A national panel urges a campaign to avert an AIDS "catastrophe"
Dirty Carpets
The U.N. makes do with less
End of the Six-Year Ice Follies
In New York City, the rink that could not be fixed finally reopens
Farewell to a Quartet of Kings of the Hill
Four retiring members of Congress represent the passing of political traditions
No Nukes
Did Reagan blunder?
The Presidency
"We'Ll Talk About Everything"
The Risk to Heterosexuals
Top Guns, Handguns and Raw Pork |
Congress fires selfish shots at military contracts
WORLD
Britain More Scandalous Than Fiction
The Tories' deputy chairman resigns after a prostitute payoff
Enrile: "I Am Not Speaking Out of Turn"
Israel Tattletale
A nuclear technician vanishes
Lebanon Hostage Release
David Jacobsen's freeing raises hopes for more to come
Saudi Arabia a Wild Goodbye to Mr. Oil
Yamani is fired as energy minister after two decades of power
Soviet Union Artful Candor
Fresh looks at Stalin
The Philippines Putting Politics Back in the Streets
Enrile and Laurel step up the offensive against Aquino
World
HEALTH & MEDICINE
See Jane Run (and Do Likewise)
(Health & Fitness)
Columnist Brody hectors Americans into better habits
SOCIETY
In Connecticut: Game Time
(American Scene)
The Color of New Blood
(Living)
Some snazzy duds from three upstarts
PRESS
Passing the Metroliner Test
CBS News gets a new president and a boost in morale
St. Louis Blues
The Globe-Democrat sinks
RELIGION
A Summit for Peace in Assisi
World religious leaders pray, not as one, but together
SPORT
Only So Much Excitement
The brash Mets and brittle Red Sox fulfill their destinies
STYLE & DESIGN
An "a" List for the Baby Boom
(Design)
Singling out the decade's up-and-coming young architects
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
World Notes Austria
Muddying the Cloudy Waters
World Notes Ethiopia
A Moderate Bows Out
World Notes Japan
Dangerous Souvenir
World Notes Libya
A Long and Busy Arm
World Notes South Korea
Pitched Battle At Konkuk U.
BUSINESS
"Strap on Your Seat Belts!"
(Economy & Business)
Program traders shake the exchanges with swift transactions
Business Notes Fairs
(Economy & Business)
Expo Artifacts: Going, Gone
Business Notes Investments
(Economy & Business)
Too Good to Last Forever
Business Notes Press
(Economy & Business)
Bad Dispatch for U.P.I.
Business Notes Trade
(Economy & Business)
Every Little Bit Helps
Business Notes Trademarks
(Economy & Business)
Who Ya Gonna Call, Fatso?
Manic Market
(Economy & Business)
Is computer-driven stock trading good for America?
Roaring into Tax Reform
(Economy & Business)
Under the new rules, Wall Street may be a big winner
EDUCATION
What Is College For?
Careers, say students; learning, argues a major new study
LAW
Trouble with Fighting Back
A Miami storekeeper escapes a manslaughter indictment
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
"There's Magic in the Night"
(Music)
A new Springsteen live album is born to stun
A Look At a Beautiful Impasse
(Art)
Morris Louis' paintings embody the discourse of pure hue
Books
(Books)
Desperately Seeking Something
(Cinema)
Two new films strike out on the road to eccentricity
Double Image Group Sex
(Books)
by Ann Arensberg Knopf; 175 pages; $15.95
Loners & Losers the Last Worthless Evening: Four Novellas & Two
(Books)
Stories by Andre Dubus GODINE; 214 PAGES; $15.95
The Melancholy Life of Uncle Anton Chekhov
(Books)
by Henri Troyat; Translated by Michael Henry Heim Dutton; 364 pages; $22.50
Up the Creek the Mission
(Cinema)
Directed by Roland Joffe Screenplay by Robert Bolt
PEOPLE
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TO OUR READERS
A Letter From the Publisher
(Publisher's Letter)
ESSAY
What Has Happened to Totalitarianism?