Time Magazine Contents Page May 9, 1988
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COVER: For many youngsters, crack dealing is the ghetto' s job program
Like most kids, they crave the beautiful things that only big money can buy. But with few jobs or other opportunities open to them, growing numbers of underclass children -- some as young as nine or ten -- are choosing wildly lucrative and grotesquely violent lives of crime. Crack' s corruption of the young is becoming a millstone around America' s neck. See NATION.
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NATION: Twenty years later, Bobby Kennedy lives on in America' s imagination
Hero or opportunist? Generous or ruthless? Bobby still evokes such questions. But as man and myth, he calls to mind even more an era of political passion and social commitment that stands in contrast to 1988. He made politics matter. -- R. F. K.' s presidential campaign was an exhilarating ride for reporters as well as voters. A TIME correspondent remembers.
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WORLD: Mitterrand duels Chirac in the homestretch of France' s presidential poll
The Socialist President trades barbs with the Neo- Gaullist Premier after grabbing a hefty lead in the first round of voting. The big surprise is the showing of Ultra- Rightist Jean- Marie Le Pen, who becomes a key force in French politics. -- The Palestinian uprising spawns a diffuse band of leaders who do not take orders from anyone outside the Israeli- occupied territories.
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Education
A contentious report by the Secretary of Education sets off another round in the national debate on reforming America' s schools.
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Environment
For the first time, an environmental study concludes that acid rain is partly responsible for killing marine life along the Atlantic Coast.
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Economy & Business
A stalemate over what to do about the trade deficit. -- OPEC and friends struggle to raise oil prices. -- Milken takes the Fifth.
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Law
The U. S. Supreme Court opts to reconsider a major civil rights ruling. Does this mean a conservative judicial majority is shaping up?
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Press
ABC' s Nightline goes to Israel for an extraordinary week of shows. -- The Israeli government lifts two American reporters' credentials.
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Art
A masterly Gauguin exhibition clears away the myths and moonshine and at last lets us see the pioneering French painter whole.
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Cinema
Angels operating in today' s Berlin are the subject of Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders' swoony new movie. -- Sunset fades fast.
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Living
Sotheby' s auctions the 10,000- item Warhol collection, from cookie jars to Eskimo masks, in a fitting tribute to the huckster of hype.
8 Letters
12 American Scene
80 Theater
80 Milestones
83 Books
86 Food
87 Dance
88 People