Vol. 126 No. 16

American Notes Atlantic City
Caesars' Unlucky Day

American Notes Campuses
Voices Against Apartheid

American Notes Justice
Spurning the World Court

American Notes the President
Keeping His Nose Clean

American Notes Vermont
Impure As the Driven Snow

Chiefs in Search of a Chief

Cocaine's Skydiving Smugglers
Now parachutists and disposable planes sneak in drugs

Dancing Around the Deficit
Huffing and puffing, Congress tries a budget-balancing act

Drums Along the Potomac
The military establishment is besieged by some of its staunchest supporters

Last Rites for a Barrio
A crushing mud slide kills hundreds in Puerto Rico

Painful Verdict
San Diego loses its mayor

Rx for Peace
A Nobel for a doctors' group

Wind River's Lost Generation
An outbreak of suicide plagues a Wyoming reservation

An Interview with Rajiv Gandhi
"Democracy Has Reached Deep into the Average Indian"

Britain Under Fire
Riot brings a tough response

France a Time for Soul-Searching
Mitterrand's troubled Socialists seek to revive confidence and avoid defeat

Soviet Union Fighting the Battle of the Bottle
Gorbachev's campaign to curb abuses leaves drinkers thirsty

World Notes Central America
Unclogging Contra AID

World Notes El Salvador
Death in a Dawn Attack

World Notes Japan
Opening Up Old Wounds

World Notes Portugal
Another Minority Government

World Notes Sri Lanka
Another Try for a Truce

"I Thought It Was Terrific" (Terrorism)

In Pursuit of Justice (Terrorism)

The U.S. Sends a Message (Terrorism)
A bold, nonviolent stroke ends four days of horror and humiliation

The Voyage of The (Terrorism)
Achille Lauro A Mediterranean pleasure cruise turns into a 52-hour nightmare at sea

Conquering Inherited Enemies
Doctors stand on the brink of a genetic revolution

Too Much of a Good Thing? (Medicine)
The Frustacis sue their fertility doctor

Are Criminals Born, Not Made? (Behavior)
A new book looks at the predisposition toward lawbreaking

In Des Moines: Worms for Sale (American Scene)

The Man Who's Changing Clothes (Living)
Designer Issey Miyake makes fashion for tomorrow

Newswatch
The Blanding of Newspapers

Trinity Day
A new journal is born

A Machine on Every Desk (Computers)
Drexel shows how 8,000 computers can transform a campus

Baker Steers a New Course (Economy & Business)
The U.S. launches an ambitious plan to defuse the Third World's debt bomb

Business Notes Autos (Economy & Business)
Diamond-Star Shines on Illinois

Business Notes Beer (Economy & Business)
A Multinational Brew

Business Notes Disasters (Economy & Business)
Boeing Pledges to Pay Up

Business Notes Italy (Economy & Business)
The Comrades Turn Bullish

Business Notes Marketing (Economy & Business)
Corporate Identity Crisis

Calvin Meets the Marlboro Man (Economy & Business)
Tossing aside taboos in the bold new world of advertising

Facing Failure (Economy & Business)
Canadian banks in trouble

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Banker (Economy & Business)
Manufacturers Hanover cuts the interest rate on credit cards

Job Shuffle Ahead? (Economy & Business)

People on the Move (Economy & Business)
The discount carrier wins the bidding in the battle for Frontier

Putting Them All to the Test
Does wider screening mean narrower freedoms?

A Jubilant Cry From the Gutter Les Miserables (Theater)
by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg

Crying "Shame" At Lincoln Center (Cinema)
The U.S. premiere of Hail Mary stirs Catholic protests

Fossils Galapagos (Books)
by Kurt Vonnegut Delacorte; 295 pages; $16.95

In Search of Immortality the Tree of Life (Books)
by Hugh Nissenson; Harper & Row; 159 pages; $15.95

Memory Movie When Father Was Away on Business (Cinema)
Directed by Emir Kusturica Screenplay by Abdulah Sidran

Obsession Strindberg: a Biography (Books)
by Michael Meyer Random House; 651 pages; $24.95