Vol. 126 No. 12

"Not an Easy Disease to Come By"
For all its ferocity, AIDS is relatively hard to get

American Notes Arms Control
Lacking the Right Chemistry

American Notes Crime
Unrepentant About Murder

American Notes Drugs
A Smuggler's Hard Landing

American Notes Elections
No One Catches Koch

American Notes Justice
Who Killed John Belushi?

Harvest Song
Willie plans a benefit

Order in Court
Neo-Nazis go on trial

Swans and Ugly Ducklings

The New Untouchables
Anxiety over AIDS is verging on hysteria in some parts of the country

Toning Up the Nuclear Triad
How each leg of America's strategic deterrent really works

Trying to Cut His Losses
Reagan moves to outflank Congress on two charged issues

Zap! Then a Flap
A satellite shooter scores a hit

Britain Big Blow to the Kgb
The top Soviet spy master in London defects to the West

Britain Looting Spree
A riot scars Birmingham

A Successor Generation

Flourishing Collectives

The Second Revolution
Deng's reforms are taking China on a courageous if uncharted course

Thailand Power Grab
A coup attempt fizzles

World

World Notes Argentina
The Generals in the Dock

World Notes El Salvador
Missing: Duarte's Daughter

World Notes Honduras
Striking At the Sandinistas

World Notes
Portugal Fiery Collision

World Notes Soviet Union
A Poem for the Party

Haunting Images of Disaster
Titanic's Discoverer Reveals Dramatic Pictures of the Sunken Ship

The Upstaging of Halley's Armada (Space)
A U.S. Spacecraft Makes the First Encounter with a Comet

After Cancer (Medicine)
A drug to prevent recurrence

Viral Map (Medicine)
First step to a cure for colds

A Video Chronicle of Our Times
45/85 Looks At the Past 40 Years

Opting for the Browning Version
The Episcopal Church picks an activist liberal as its leader

Roman Column
John Paul, journalist

But in Barrooms, the Debate Goes On

For Pete's Sake, He Cried
Rose confirms Cobb's place in heaven and his own on earth

The Cocaine Agonies Continue
Charges of illegal drug use touch even some baseball greats

A Red Star Rises on the High Seas (Economy & Business)
Soviet merchant ships are undercutting world markets

Business Notes Defense (Economy & Business)
Peeking At Pentagon Papers

Business Notes Entertainment (Economy & Business)
Male Rabbits Join the Bunnies

Business Notes Lodging (Economy & Business)
Motel By the Minute

Business Notes Marketing (Economy & Business)
A Flat Year for Coke

Business Notes Real Estate (Economy & Business)
The Rockefellers Cash In

Dancing to a Foreign Tune Time's (Economy & Business)
Board of Economists says events abroad will determine U.S. growth

Gucci Suits (Economy & Business)
A famous name in court

Stream Doctor (Economy & Business)
Trout love his landscapes

Crimebuster Compromising Positions (Cinema)
Directed by Frank Perry Screenplay by Susan Isaacs

Experiment in Black and White Common Ground: a Turbulent Decade (Books)
in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas; Knopf; 659 pages; $19.95

Haunted Peace a Stillness Heard Round the World (Books)
by Stanley Weintraub Dutton; 468 pages; $22.50

Mean Streets in Nighttown After Hours (Cinema)
Directed by Martin Scorsese; Screenplay by Joseph Minion

Old Habits, New Formats (Video)
Anthology shows come back as the networks gear up for fall

Spectacles Mr. Palomar (Books)
by Italo Calvino Translated by William Weaver Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 130 pages; $12.95