Vol. 132 No. 23
NATION
Bimbos for Bombers
American Notes BOSTON
Where There's Smoke . . .
American Notes CRIME
Have I Got a Deal for You!
American Notes ENVIRONMENT
A High-Cost Cleanup
American Notes POLITICS
Still a Splinter
Foster Children with the AIDS Virus (American Ideas)
Families That Open Their Homes to the Sick A mother to disabled kids, Rachel Rossow helps other moms make brief lives happy
Last Licks
Free of election fears, Reagan fires some parting shots
Mountains Of Advice
But George Bush probably doesn't need most of it
Only English Spoken Here
Language as politics spawns a backlash against immigrants
Shultz's Last Stand
Why he fought to keep Arafat away from the U.N.
Slaughter in The Streets
Crack touches off a homicide epidemic
The Presidency
The $50 Million Face-Lift
Will This Bird Fly?
The radar-invisible Stealth bomber could give the U.S. a lead over the Soviets. Or it could bust the budget
WORLD
After an emotional campaign, Mulroney -- and free trade with the U.S. -- wins a resounding victory
Iraq Sins of The Son
Nationalities People Power, Soviet Style
Moscow rolls out the tanks as Azerbaijan and Armenia flare up
Shamir's Exquisite Dilemma
Whatever partner he chooses, the country faces a no-win situation
South Africa
Measures of Mercy
South Korea
Humbling Apologies
Sudan Starvation in a Fruitful Land
Civil war produces a terrible new weapon: food, not bullets
World Notes ANGOLA
On to the Finish Line
HEALTH & MEDICINE
It's Not "All in Your Head" (Health & Fitness)
New therapies keep impotence from being a hopeless condition
New Methods for Saving Blood (Medicine)
Researchers are trying to reclaim, recycle and replenish it
RELIGION
San Francisco's Archbishop forbids Masses for Dignity
SPORT
Buffalo's Bills, long frozen in the basement, romp to the top
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 132 No. 23
Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 132 No. 23 DECEMBER 5, 1988
BUSINESS
In the first interview since his buyout bid, Ross Johnson defends his sweet deal
A Heap of Woe for the Junkman
Bond wiz Milken prepares for criminal charges
Business Notes LABOR
The Grocery-Cart Coalition
Business Notes LITIGATION
Is That All There Is?
Business Notes MARKETING
Scents from The Stars
Business Notes OPEC
Forging a Fragile Peace
Business Notes TOYS
Nintendo Tops The Wish Lists
Where's the Limit?
The biggest takeover battle in history raises questions about greed, debt and the well-being of American industry
One Player's Gain Is Another's Pain
The Cast of Characters
EDUCATION
Bush reappoints a consensus builder to a centerpiece job
Report Card
LAW
Is the historic Roe v. Wade ruling about to be overturned?
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
PRIVATE VIEW: INSIDE BARYSHNIKOV'S AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE by John Fraser; Photographs by Eve Arnold; Bantam; 259 pages; $30
Critics' Choice (Critics' Choice)
Enchanting Folly (Books)
Incomplete Angler (Books)
Rattling The Neighborhood (Music)
The Cowboy Junkies cook up some fresh country blues
Sharp Tongue in the Trenches (Video)
Roseanne Barr's caustic humor sparks TV's newest hit
The Club Med of the Humanists (Art)
A Washington show surveys Arcadia, as seen by painters from Giorgione to Matisse
The Fire in the South MISSISSIPPI BURNING (Cinema)
Directed by Alan Parker Screenplay by Chris Gerolmo
SPECIAL SECTION
Forget June: seasoned travelers go off-season
PEOPLE
Sir Brian Urquhart reflects on war and peace, idealism and realism, and a lifetime at the United Nations as his organization picks up a Nobel Prize