Vol. 130 No. 4
NATION
American Notes AIR FORCE
The Stealth's Soaring Costs
American Notes JUSTICE
Conflicts of Interest
American Notes LOS ANGELES
A Ratlord In His Roost
American Notes POLITICS
Solace for an Adversary
American Notes REPUBLICANS
Not Quite So Grand
But Was It a Crime?
North and Poindexter may soon face charges
Congress Goes Home Again
In Philadelphia, the legislature celebrates its conception
It Ain't Over Till It's Over
North's pleas have given new impetus to contra-funding efforts
Passing The Buck
How the President's men attempted to evade accountability
Secret Sharers
How much does Congress leak?
The Admiral Takes the Hit
Poindexter says he never told Reagan about the diversion of arms profits
The Duke of Economic Uplift
Mike Dukakis has a governing passion
WORLD
Capitalism On Kropotkinskaya Street
Can He Bring It Off?
Slowly, tentatively, a rigid society awakes to the chilly dawn of reform
Refugees We Say Hello
Washed up on Canada's shore
Taiwan Thirty-Eight Years Later . . .
Taipei finally gets around to lifting martial law
The Gorbachev Era
A determined and energetic leader pushes the Soviet Union toward a second revolution
The Gulf Showdown on Embassy Row
France and Iran sever ties, but the threats continue
Will The Cold War Fade Away?
Moscow's "new thinking" could radically alter the superpower rivalry, but . . .
World Notes CHINA
The High Price Of Mercy
World Notes DISASTERS
Nature Takes Her Revenge
World Notes PAKISTAN
Thou Shalt Not Proliferate
World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
Half Now, Half Later
World Notes SOUTH KOREA
Lots of Kims, But No Kin
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Fancy Is as Fancy Does
(Food)
New taste fashions for the gourmet trade
Solution For Soggy Cereal
(Food)
SOCIETY
"Time Bombs on Legs"
(Behavior)
Violence-prone owners are turning pit bulls into killers
PRESS
Some Hits, Some Runs, One Error
Max Frankel is taking command at the New York Times
TECHNOLOGY
Games That Grownups Play
(Computers)
Business machines loosen up and have a bit of fun
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time
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BUSINESS
A Case of Delta Blues
(Economy & Business)
Probing an airline's errors
Biggest Little Brokerage
(Economy & Business)
Business Notes AUCTIONS
(Economy & Business)
What Am I Bid For This Mall?
Business Notes BROADCASTING CBS
(Economy & Business)
Erases Its Place in Print
Business Notes EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
(Economy & Business)
Color Them Embarrassed
Business Notes PERSONAL FINANCE
(Economy & Business)
$412,000 Hole In His Pocket
Business Notes TAXES
(Economy & Business)
Turn Over That Piggy Bank!
Jaws: The Australian
(Economy & Business)
A raider closes in on Texaco
Riding The Wild Bull
(Economy & Business)
Individual investors learn how to play a volatile market and win
The Store That Runs on a Wrench
(Economy & Business)
An invader from Scandinavia creates a build-it-yourself empire
LAW
Casting A Net at Green River
A serial-murder manhunt remains a study in frustration
Parsing A Sentence
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Bolshoi Lords Aleaping
(Dance)
But questions arise about the company's balance
How Artists Respond to AIDS
(Show Business)
Commemorating its victims with benefits, new works and quiet heroism
Summer Reading
(Books)
A seasonal fiesta of fiction for hammock, porch and beach
The Soul of a Blue Machine ROBOCOP
(Cinema)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven Screenplay by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner
MILESTONES
Milestones
Milestones
Milestones
Milestones
Milestones
Milestones
Milestones
PEOPLE
People
People
People
People
TO OUR READERS
A Letter From the Publisher
(A Letter From The Publisher)
LETTERS
Broken Date
Brotherly Embrace
Cremating A Guru
Historic Charter
Lack Of Suspicion
Metric Measure
Those Ill-Served
ESSAY
Essay