Vol. 126 No. 17

After the Bomb
Mayor Goode blasts his aides

American Notes Health
Deaths Out of Proportion

American Notes Louisiana
Prison for a Priest

American Notes San Diego
The Once and Present Mayor

American Notes
The Vice President Hard Volleys in Peking

American Notes Washington
Star Wars in the Parking Lot

Damming a Leak
Photo filcher found guilty

His Least Silent Mission

Lost Leviathan

Resolving a Star Wars Skirmish
The President papers over a heated dispute on weapons testing

Slow Fade
Tax reform dies away

The U.N.'s Mid-Life Crisis
Reagan and a phalanx of world leaders gather for a troubled 40th birthday

Utah Docudrama
Murder Among the Mormons

Lebanon Seeking the Silent Majority
After years of chaos, Amin Gemayel is modestly hopeful

Nicaragua Enemies Within
Civil liberties are suspended

Poland No Strength in Numbers
Jaruzelski's election victory solves few problems

Public Health a Scourge Spreads Panic
As AIDS reaches around the globe, governments are galvanized into action

South Africa "I Am Proud to Give My Life"
The execution of a poet touches off an angry rampage

The Philippines Friendly Advice
A messenger from Reagan

World Notes Bangladesh
Catastrophe in the Rain

World Notes Belgium
Continuity 1, Change 0

World Notes Diplomacy
The Lady's Not for Sanctions

World Notes Hungary
No Room At the Intercontinental

World Notes Soviet Union
Burying Khrushchev's Dreams

"a Would-Be Palestinian Rambo" (Terrorism)
Abbas' career is a case study in P.L.O. infighting

"You Can Feel the Damage" (Terrorism)

An Interview with William Casey (Terrorism)
"I Would Like to Think the Interception . . . Will Be a Turning Point"

The Price of Success (Terrorism)
Reagan's coup breeds anger in Egypt, crisis in Italy, disarray in diplomacy

Piecing Together the Drama (Terrorism)
Israel's backup plan and Mubarak's surprising revelation

The Presidency (Terrorism)
"Let's Do It"

Bringing Sanctuary to Trial
A Tucson case provides a major test of church against state

Making It Perfectly Clear
Baseball, football and Nixon search for absolute truth

Kings, Queens and Silicon Chips (Computers)
A chess-playing supercomputer loses its title match

New Muscle At the Box Office
Arnold Schwarzenegger shoots up a hit in COMMANDO

"It's a Jungle Out There" (Economy & Business)
A strike at Chrysler raises worries in a booming but concerned industry

Blue-Chip Partner for a Network (Economy & Business)
Laurence Tisch lends a hand to his friends in Black Rock

Business Notes Appointments (Economy & Business)
No Thanks, Mr. President

Business Notes Banking (Economy & Business)
My, What a Friendly Customer

Business Notes Beverages (Economy & Business)
Winner and Still Champion

Business Notes Leisure (Economy & Business)
Who Is Annie May Bullock

Business Notes Trade (Economy & Business)
The U.S. Bites Back

Canal Lockout (Economy & Business)
A Collapsed Wall Halts Shipping

Getting in Touch with One Another (Economy & Business)
At long last, IBM has figured out a way to link its lonely PCs

Inside the Gray Market (Economy & Business)
Discount retailers offer brand-name bargains for the wary

Pick a Car, Any Car (Economy & Business)

The Worst of Two Worlds
Academic double standards leave many athletes undereducated

A Night Or Two At the Opera (Music)
Videocassettes make the easy chair the best seat in the house

A Rich, Feisty Eventfulness (Art)
California's Wayne Thiebaud emerges as a leading U.S. realist

Bookends (Books)

Dwarfed By Ancient Archetypes Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury; Knopf; 278 pages; $15.95 (Books)

Relativity Family and Friends (Books)
by Anita Brookner Pantheon; 187 pages; $13.95

The Playwright As Polemicist a Map of the World (Theater)
by David Hare

Honors for Seven Achievers (Nobel Prizes)
Europe and the U.S. sweep the latest round of prizes

Nobel Prizes (Nobel Prizes)