Vol. 131 No. 6
NATION
Combative and high-strung, Dan Rather remains more reporter than anchorman
"Shoot Him! Shoot Him!"
A Pre-Primary Report
Ailes: The Selling of Toughness
American Notes CIVIL RIGHTS
Grove City Limits
American Notes DIPLOMACY
A Stay-at-Home Envoy
American Notes PENNSYLVANIA
After 37 Years, An Arrest
American Notes SUPREME COURT
At Last, A Justice
American Notes UTAH
Fulfilling the Prophecy
Bad Habits Die Hard
The FBI is accused of political snooping and racial harassment
Bushwhacked!
Dan Rather sets sparks flying in a showdown with the Vice President
Getting To Know Them
What the long Iowa campaign revealed about the candidates
In The Kingdom of Television
Inf Faces a Final Hurdle
The Senate presses some of its own ideas about the missile treaty
More Trouble for Meese
Was the Attorney General asked to condone a bribe?
Political Grapevine 1986
The Phantom of Iranscam
WORLD
But a 200th birthday bash is clouded by the aborigines' plight
Austria In Search of the Smoking Gun
A historian claims new evidence links Waldheim to atrocities
Central America Putting Guns on The Table
As talks begin, the debate over rebel aid intensifies
Colombia Day of the Assassins
The drug lords carry out a bloody attack to silence a top lawman
Israel Crisis of Conscience
The Palestinian crackdown stirs consternation among foreign friends
Managua's Man in D.C.
The Missing Uzbek Billions
World Notes CHINA
From Fame To Shame
World Notes DIPLOMACY
Getting Their Irish Up
World Notes PANAMA
A Briefcase for The General?
World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
The Bloom Fades
World Notes SOVIET UNION
Pulling the Plug On a Nuke
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Aids peak From new tests to new viruses (Medicine)
Aspirin: The Cardiologist's Dream? (Medicine)
A homely prevention for heart disease gets mixed reviews
Have Your Cake -- and Eat It Too (Health & Fitness)
A new fat substitute heralds a dazzling era of phony foods
The Bagel Takes to the Road (Food)
Mainstream America eats it up -- but has it lost authenticity?
SOCIETY
Voila! It's Fun a Lacroix (Living)
The new king of couture brings back the magic
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time (Contents)
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BUSINESS
Crushed Cranberries
Business Notes AUCTIONS (Economy & Business)
Back in the Saddle Again
Business Notes BANKRUPTCY (Economy & Business)
Buried Under a Nuclear Pile
Business Notes THE ECONOMY (Economy & Business)
A Surge Before The Slump?
Business Notes TRADE (Economy & Business)
Roaring Back At the Tigers
Can This Elephant Dance? (Economy & Business)
IBM streamlines operations to shake its lead-footed image
Here Come "Malls Without Walls" (Economy & Business)
Hypermarkets sell everything from antifreeze to zoom lenses
System Failure (Economy & Business)
Black Monday's other crash
Tougher Than the Rest (Economy & Business)
No longer does Raider Carl Icahn merely take the money and run
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Music Of The Night THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Theater)
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe; Book by Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber
Not Fair RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN (Books)
by Jonathan Kozol Crown; 261 pages; $16.95
Samovars Without Stereotypes THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Theater)
By Anton Chekhov
Sex And Death in Czechoslovakia (Cinema)
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING Directed by Phil Kaufman Screenplay by Jean-Claude Carriere and Phil Kaufman
Winning The Old-Fashioned Way (Books)
Farrar, Straus reaps prizes and profits on a shoestring
PEOPLE
Physicist STEPHEN HAWKING is confined to a wheelchair, a virtual prisoner in his own body, but his intellect carries him to the far reaches of the universe