Vol. 123 No. 20

NATION

Closing In on the Prize

An Opening to the Middle Kingdom

"A Threat to the Future"

Mystery Flight over Nevada

Still No Peace

Stinging Rebuke

An Olympic Ideal Gets Burned

Unadorned, but Proud (The Presidency/Hugh Sidey)

Ah, Wilderness

Miss Liberty's Make-Over

WORLD

Gloom but Not Yet Doom (NICARAGUA)

Fighting the "Rabid Dogs"

Taking Sides? (EL SALVADOR)

Marching out of Step (POLAND)

No Picnic All Around (LEBANON)

Havoc at Home, Too, for Gaddafi (LIBYA)

Murder Clues (BRITAIN)

Forum Fizzle (IRELAND)

SCIENCE

Aftermath of a Nuclear Spill (Environment)

SOCIETY

In Washington: Missionary (American Scene)

PRESS

An Absence of Malice

Bad Show

RELIGION

Papal Nod to a Christian Boom

SPORT

Swale on the Rail for the Roses

TECHNOLOGY

Cracking Down (Computers)

X-Rated (Computers)

BUSINESS

The Superstars of Merger (Economy & Business)

Early Warning (Economy & Business)

Portrait of a Federal Fiasco (Economy & Business)

Mining China (Economy & Business)

Testing and Protesting (Economy & Business)

A Move to Ease Death's Sting (Economy & Business)

Double Play (Economy & Business)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Best Year Of Her Lives (Show Business / COVER STORY)

The Other Star in the Family (Show Business)

Sondheim Connects the Dots (Theater)

Anguished Aria (Theater)

Revelation on 53rd Street (Art)

The Naysayer to Nihilism (Books)

Triangle (Books)

Survivors (Books)

Swinging for the Fences (Cinema)

MILESTONES

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PEOPLE

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TO OUR READERS

Read the story (A Letter From The Publisher)

LETTERS

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ESSAY

The Appeal of Ordeal