Vol. 129 No. 12
NATION
That is why Marian Edelman became a top lobbyist for children
Aids Becomes a Political Issue
The New Right seeks to make it a litmus test for Republicans
American Notes DEMOCRATS
Cut Out the Rough Stuff
American Notes DRUGS
A $1.5 Billion Inside Job
American Notes MONTANA
Back to Lewis And Clark?
American Notes POLITICS
Enter Babbitt, Repeatedly
American Notes THE WEST
Bringing In A Badman
Campaign Portrait
Survivor On the Track Dole plugs conservatism with compassion
Congress
Shows Its Impatience With an artful ploy, it registers coolness toward the contras
Farewell, Dark Prince
Soviets In San Diego?
Washington proposes a sweeping on-site inspection plan
Teen Suicide
Two death pacts shake the country
The "Dapper Don" Beats a Rap
Crime Boss John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering charges
The Presidency
The Establishment Steps In
Timing Tiff
Immunity now -- or later?
What the Abm
Treaty Means
WORLD
Ecuador Slow Killers
Twin quakes take a brutal toll
Israel Uproar over a Spy
The Pollard case sparks new U.S.-Israeli tensions
Japan
A Whiff of Blood In the Water Furor over a tax plan
Mexico Let Us Now Await the Hidden One
The ruling party prepares to pick a presidential candidate
South Africa 306
Solutions to a Baffling Problem A new book presents an intriguing scenario for the future
World Notes CZECHOSLOVAKIA
An End to All That Jazz
World Notes DISASTERS
Grief and a Ghost Ship
World Notes LEBANON
Bed Check In Beirut
World Notes NIGERIA
When Passions Spill Over
World Notes SOVIET UNION
Moonshine on The Volga
SCIENCE
Supernova! (Cover Story)
Scientists are agog over the brightest exploding star in 383 years
The Fate of the Sun (Cover Story)
SOCIETY
Sexes (Sexes)
When The Date Turns into Rape (Sexes)
Too often the attacker is the clean-cut acquaintance next door
PRESS
After new layoffs, a debate rages over the future of CBS News
RELIGION
Rome denounces some rapidly spreading methods of conception
SPORT
How hard was Forbes Field? Forbes Field was so hard . . .
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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BUSINESS
Chrysler takes a chance by buying AMC
Benefits (Economy & Business)
Left Out In the Cold
Charge of The Plastic Brigade (Economy & Business)
American Express starts a new credit-card war with Optima
Regulation (Economy & Business)
More Bucks For Babble
Retailing (Economy & Business)
From Blackface To Redface
Swindles (Economy & Business)
Bad Marks at Volkswagen
Technology (Economy & Business)
Keep the Fox From the Coop
The Insider (Economy & Business)
Scandal Travels Abroad A Briton and an Israeli are accused of illegal trading
Who Said Takeovers Were Dead? (Economy & Business)
From casinos to airlines, the bidding becomes brisk again
LAW
A wider opening for refugees
Triple Reverse
Investigative reporting upheld
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Les Miserables sets Broadway sales records -- and deserves to
Bone Crack LETHAL WEAPON (Cinema)
Directed by Richard Donner Screenplay by Shane Black
Chain Reactions $ THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB (Books)
by Richard Rhodes Simon & Schuster; 886 pages; $22.95
Franco (Music)
Zeffirelli in Chinatown And a new Turandot at the Met
Friday Night FOE (Books)
by J.M. Coetzee Viking; 157 pages; $15.95
Onlookers At A Revolution PERSIAN NIGHTS (Books)
by Diane Johnson; Knopf; 352 pages; $17.95
Reclaiming A Vital Heritage (Show Business)
A New Jersey warehouse yields a trove of old-master tunes
Rootless People RAISING ARIZONA (Cinema)
Directed by Joel Coen; Screenplay by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen