Vol. 129 No. 10

NATION

American Notes ARMS CONTROL
Is Nixon Still The One?

American Notes ATLANTIC OCEAN
Help Came Too Late

American Notes CHICAGO
Round 1 to The Mayor

American Notes DRUGS
Following a Trend

American Notes POACHERS
Rising to the Bait

"I'm Leaving, I'm Leaving!" (Cover Stories)

Can He Recover? (COVER STORIES)
After the Tower report's indictment, Reagan calls in an old hand

Donald Regan (Cover Stories)

George Bush (Cover Stories)

John Poindexter (Cover Stories)

Just Say Goodbye, Don (Cover Stories)
Nancy Reagan wins her campaign against Chief of Staff Regan

Laying Out the Brutal Facts (Cover Stories)
Tower's panel shows that the devil was in the details

Oliver North's Blank Check (Cover Stories)
The NSC aide had planes and money hopscotching the globe

Oliver North (Cover Stories)

Ollie's Angel (Cover Stories)

Picking On the Prosecutors (Cover Stories)
A constitutional challenge

Robert McFarlane (Cover Stories)

Ronald Reagan (Cover Stories)

Shultz, Weinberger (Cover Stories)

The Presidency (Cover Stories)
"The Circuits Are Overloaded"

The Right Man at the Right Time (Cover Stories)
Howard Baker is a popular choice as the new chief of staff

What Happened? (Cover Stories)
A noted author who has written six books on U.S. Presidents, including Nixon Agonistes and Reagan's America, and is Henry R. Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University

William Casey (Cover Stories)

No Rebates
Mecham stirs a tempest

The High Jumper from St. Louis Missouri
Congressman Gephardt aims for the Oval Office

WORLD

A Crazy Game of Musical Chairs

China Battle of the Octogenarians
A power struggle is under way, and Deng may be in trouble

Eastern Europe
Worried and Nervous Neighbors Gorbachev's reforms are causing concern among the satellites

A Paris Court Stands Firm (France)
Life in prison for a terrorist

Jailing "Bonnie And Clyde"

Lebanon Saving a City From Itself
The militiamen lose their weapons and their beards as the Syrians move into West Beirut

A Day in the Depths of the Gulag (Soviet Union)
The place where rain falls, but sun never shines

The Vatican Hiding Behind the Walls
An arrest warrant leads to a legal standoff with Italy

World Notes BRITAIN
Bubbly for The Winner

World Notes DISARMAMENT
Untying a Package Deal

World Notes KENYA
No Way to Rest in Peace

World Notes WEST GERMANY
The AIDS Cops Are Coming

SCIENCE

A Wonder in the Southern Sky
Astronomers revel over a rare supernova visible to the naked eye

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Is Mental Illness Inherited? (Medicine)
Amish families offer a clue to manic depression

Massage (Health & Fitness)
Comes Out of the Parlor At airports, offices and shopping centers, the rub that refreshes

SOCIETY

In Florida: Everyman's Dream (American Scene)

Snowboarders Invade the Slopes (Living)
Flashy adolescents zigzag through the ranks of skiers

SPORT

"Death" to S.M.U. Football

Par Cut Off at the Knees
On the rules of golf and other merciless inventions of man

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Time (Contents)
Magazine Contents page MARCH 9, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 10

Time (Masthead)
Magazine Masthead page MARCH 9, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 10

BUSINESS

Business Notes ADVERTISING (Economy & Business)
Do Top Guns Swig Diet Pop?

Business Notes COMPUTERS (Economy & Business)
Color Me Blue, Says Mac II

Business Notes LABOR (Economy & Business)
Taking Sweat Out of Style

Business Notes OIL PRICES A (Economy & Business)
Slip Twixt Pump and Lip

Business Notes STATISTICS (Economy & Business)
More Poultry, Less Pastry

Desperately Seeking Survival (Economy & Business)
Pan Am considers putting its money-losing shuttle up for sale

Fearing That "Muck Will Stick" (Economy & Business)
Britain's stock-trading scandal could produce a political backlash

I'll Take Manhattan -- and Waikiki (Economy & Business)
Japanese investors learn to love American real estate

Over The Ears in Debt (Economy & Business)
TIME's Board of Economists warns of the dangers of too much borrowing

LAW

A Split Decision

Replying in The Affirmative
For the first time, the court approves promotion quotas

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Caterer of Repetition and Glut (Art)
Andy Warhol: 1928-1987

A Generation of Vipers THE RED WHITE AND BLUE (Books)
by John Gregory Dunne Simon & Schuster; 475 pages; $18.95

About Time THE OLD DEVILS (Books)
by Kingsley Amis Summit; 294 pages; $16.95

Come On, Baby, Do the Locomotion (Photography)
In a San Diego retrospective, William Klein comes home

Cry From The Heart (Theater)

Echoes (Theater)
Around the World A WALK IN THE WOODS by Lee Blessing

Feast For The Eye (Theater)

Lucifer In Disguise with Diamonds ANGEL HEART (Cinema)
Directed and Written by Alan Parker

Porco & Poses UNDERSTANDING TOSCANINI (Books)
by Joseph Horowitz Knopf; 492 pages; $30

Teen Turmoil SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL (Cinema)
Directed by Howard Deutch Screenplay by John Hughes

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