Vol. 124 No. 25

NATION

Cutting to the Quick

Speaking His Mind

Showing Washington How to Do It

Fresh Anger over Apartheid

Corporate Squeeze

Caught Between the Richards

Money Trail

A Student of Leadership (The Presidency/Hugh Sidey)

The City That No Longer Works

WORLD

Horror Abroad Flight 221 (THE GULF)

The Man in the Gray Fedora (GRENADA)

Paying Up (NATO)

Greek Threat (EUROPE)

A Poet Speaks of Art and Liberty (CZECHOSLOVAKIA)

Cheysson's Final Faux Pas (FRANCE)

A King Talks of Peace (MIDDLE EAST)

Contra Aid Gets a Champion (NICARAGUA)

Death in the Tropics (NEW CALEDONIA)

Baring the Truth (THE PHILIPPINES)

SCIENCE

All the World Gasped (Environment)

India's Night of Death (Environment / COVER STORIES)
the worst industrial disaster ever

"I Thought I Had Seen Everything" (Environment)

Two Deadly Gases (Environment)

Catalog of Catastrophe (Environment)

Hazards Of a Toxic Wasteland (Environment)

An Unending Search for Safety (Environment)

Could It Happen in West Virginia? (Environment)

A Calamity for Union Carbide (Environment)

Bounty from the Oldest Shipwreck

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Just Tick, Tick, Ticking Along (Medicine)

The Pill's Eclipse (Medicine)

SOCIETY

In Philadelphia: Superdogs (American Scene)

Trading Faces, the Latest Wrinkle (Living)

PRESS

War and Remembrance

Probing a State of Mind

STYLE & DESIGN

Their Plates Are Smashing (Design)

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Crash of a Troubled Airline (American Notes / AVIATION)

Psst! Wanna Hot Flak Jacket? (American Notes / MILITARY)

High-Altitude Handbooks (American Notes / COVERT ACTIONS)

A Step Toward Citizenship (American Notes / IMMIGRATION)

Following the Red Brick Road (American Notes / CITIES)

BUSINESS

Delivering the Goodies (Economy & Business)

Closing Doors (Economy & Business)

Rolling Heads (Economy & Business)

Pickups Make a Haul (Economy & Business)

Pickens on the Prowl (TAKEOVERS)

Blast-Off for British Telecom (STOCKS)

Warming Trends Up North (INVESTMENTS)

A Gray Market in Luxury Cars (IMPORTS)

A New Present from the Magi (PRODUCTS)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Small Wonders For the Young (Books)

Roundup at the Rock Corral (Music)

Once upon a Time in Harlem (Cinema)

The Fantasy Film as Final Exam (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

Do You Feel the Deaths of Strangers?