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COVER: Ghosts of 1960 haunt the campaign of 1988
Once again, a Democrat from Massachusetts is challenging a Republican Vice President for the White House. But beyond the surface similarities lie vast differences. -- Bush widens the likability gap with Dukakis. -- Nancy Reagan promised to stop borrowing designer dresses -- but has she? -- Helping the homeless -- a campaign essay. See Nation.
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WORLD: A volatile mix of nationalistic pride, ethnic rage and economic fatigue stirs up Eastern Europe
As Yugoslavia' s numerically dominant Serbs demand a larger share of influence, several Soviet republics push for greater autonomy. -- Why many Israeli voters are flocking to the splinter parties on the right and the left. -- Sri Lanka' s Tamil and Sinhalese militants move violently to disrupt elections. -- A personal odyssey along the 2,076- mile U. S.- Mexican border.
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BUSINESS: A major bank is indicted for running a global drug- money laundering operation
Working undercover for two years, Customs agents infiltrate a drug ring, then stage a Florida wedding to nab bankers who allegedly operate on both sides of the law. "Welcome to Tampa," said one agent to a suspect. "You' re under arrest." The probe was called Operation C- Chase, for the $100 bills that are the denomination of choice in drug deals.
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SPORT: Setting and settling its season in the West, baseball leaves it to Oakland and Los Angeles to touch the last bases
In the muscle- bound A' s and the self- effacing Dodgers, California has made a private preserve of the annual passage Tommy Lasorda actually calls "the fall classic." Orel Hershiser peers in for the sign; Jose Canseco lifts a bolt of mountain ash. When they are finished, winter will be in sight. -- Wanna do an inning of play- by- play?
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TRAVEL: Trump acquires the ultimate power toy
He has it all on the ground, and now the billionaire developer has the Eastern Shuttle, his very own airline for ferrying the high and mighty up and down the East Coast.
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LAW: Is the high bench set for a tilt to the right?
As the U. S. Supreme Court considers reversing one of its own civil rights rulings, the question is whether a conservative majority is already in place. -- When justice is blind and nameless.
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TECHNOLOGY: A first look at the Next Computer
Steven Jobs, the former chairman of Apple, attempts a comeback with a $6,500 matte black machine that is packed with the right stuff. But will it be too late -- and too expensive -- to succeed?
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PROFILE: Writer Susan Sontag won' t slow down
An ardent modernist with the earnestness -- and energy -- of a Victorian moralist, she' s readying a book on aids, finishing a novel, narrating a documentary. "I love to go faster," she says.
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BOOKS: The legend of Billy the Kid as horse- opera bouffe
Novelist Larry McMurtry converts facts into folklore, tapping themes that belong to our cultural gene pool. -- William Shawcross recounts the decline and fall of the Shah of Iran.
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ART: A rare look at one of France' s great painters
In Fort Worth, the first U. S. retrospective of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) reveals a grand classicist who reimagined antiquity with fire and passion.
6 Letters
11 Critics' Choice
13 American Scene
75 Press
75 Nobel Prize
77 Environment
81 Religion
84 Milestones
91 Living
103 Cinema
104 People
106 Essay
Cover: 1960 by Paul Schutzer -- LIFE; 1988 by Steve Liss