Vol. 129 No. 3
NATION
Tasting His Own Medicine
American Notes RAILROADS
Questions From a Wreck
American Notes TEXAS
Real Men Don't Litter
American Notes VERMONT
End of an Affair
Drug Withdrawal
It was a very short crusade
Images Of
Glory
Iranscam's
Fallout
Mixed Blessing
A Senate report provides a damning vindication for Reagan
Retraining
Reagan's competitiveness plan
Rushing to An Early Kickoff
The '88 campaign, the most wide open in decades, is under way
That Old, Rugged Cross
A new book details the FBI's harassment of Martin Luther King
The Pentagon's "Flying Edsel"
Even at $283 million a plane, the B-1B bomber has problems
The Presidency
If He Would Just Get Interested
Welfare-Plus In Washington
Bonuses for the working poor
WORLD
Two top Soviet officials visit Kabul to endorse a peace proposal
Britain
Still Going Strong at 133
Chad
War by Proxy in the Dunes French air attacks hit back at Libyan forces
China
There's a Dragon Out There Demonstrations cool as Peking hardens its stand against dissent
Cover Stories: Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm
Free-wheeling and free-spending, he flits between deals and a dozen homes
Cover Stories: The Murky World of Weapons Dealers
How arms traders bartered with U.S. policy
Dirty Dollars
A general scrubs up his image
Eastern Europe Shooting Up Under a Red Star
From Moscow to Prague, drug abuse comes out into the open
El Salvador
Headaches for The Chief
France Liberte, Egalite, Chaos
Chirac faces Italian-style unrest and protest
Lebanon
Warlord with Nine Lives
Macao
Squabble over A Magic Date
Nicaragua
Now You See It, Now . . .
South Africa
Stiff Challenge, Swift Reaction The A.N.C. changes tactics, and the government slaps the press
The Kgb
Gets Spanked
The Philippines "I Know You Still Love Me"
As Aquino braces for a plebiscite, the rebels are restless
SCIENCE
Some faraway surprises from an astronomy meeting
SOCIETY
Believers and collectors find new uses for crystals
Whose Child Is This? (Ethics)
Baby M. and the agonizing dilemma of surrogate motherhood
RELIGION
Questions about Jewish identity are raised by a U.S. emigrant's case
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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BUSINESS
Imports Are On a Roll
Business Notes BANKING (Economy & Business)
A Jolly Good Agreement
Business Notes MOVIES (Economy & Business)
Cannon Runs Low on Ammo
Business Notes PRODUCTS (Economy & Business)
Let Sleeping Plants Lie
Business Notes SCANDALS (Economy & Business)
Officer! Stop That Man
London Calling, on a Beam of Light (Economy & Business)
Undersea fiber-optic cables will bring continents closer together
The Bull Tops 2000 (Economy & Business)
A surging Dow finally clears a historic stock-market hurdle
The (Economy & Business)
Way We Were at 1000
Uneasy Alliance (Economy & Business)
Defections hit a computer team
Waterloo At Usx (Economy & Business)
Carl Icahn meets his match
EDUCATION
The feisty Secretary is converting some of his critics
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Little Sex, a Little Death Cops and fops, passion and repression in four foreign films
A (Theater)
Soviet Exile's Blazing Debut Yuri Lyubimov stages Crime and Punishment in Washington
Double (Theater)
Profile SWEET SUE by A.R. Gurney Jr.
The Varnished Truths of Philip Roth (Books)
His challenging new novel plays make-believe with reality