Vol. 126 No. 25

"He Couldn't Manage Any More"
A shooting spree in Iowa underscores the farmers' plight

"Look, Ma! No Hands!"
Congress embraces a draconian cure for the deficit and dithers on taxes

American Notes Aids
Spitting with Intent to Kill

American Notes Cities
Brother, Can You Spare a Bus?

American Notes Narcotics
A Deadly New Hit

American Notes National
Security Searching Out Falsehood

American Notes Refugees
Sanctuary's Unwanted Visitors

Bygones
Let us now praise old enemies

In Good Faith
Salvaging affirmative action

Numbers That Add Up to Trouble

Sitting It Out
Ferraro skips a Senate race

The Fall of the Screaming Eagles
A charter-jet crash kills 248 members of a famed Airborne unit

The Presidency
Present At the Preservation

Argentina Haunted By History
A long-awaited verdict fails to heal the wounds of the "dirty war"

Ethiopia a Forgotten War Rages On
Once more, Eritrean rebels fight off a government offensive

Guatemala Reaffirmation
Cerezo is elected President

Israel Tensions Without and Within
Double troubles with Syrian missiles and a spy case

South Africa Unexpected Courtroom Triumph
Pretoria drops treason charges against twelve activists

The Philippines Getting Their Acts Together
Marcos names a running mate, and his foes form a joint ticket

World Notes Colombia
A Miracle in the Mud

World Notes Emigres
The Curious Sleeping Russian

World Notes Guyana
No "Airy-Fairy" Socialist

World Notes Prizes
"to Win Over Death"

World Notes Spain
How Not to Stage a Kidnaping

A Therapist in Every Corner (Behavior)
Harmony was the goal, but participants seemed out of tune

In Savannah: Cooking on the Front Burner (American Scene)

Honoring the Second Moses
Muslims and Jews unite in paying tribute to a medieval sage

Impressions in Black and White
Of Boston and basketball, boundaries crossed and crisscrossed

The Shape of Things to Come (Design)
Time and again, frisky American designers go back to the future

Business Notes Contests
Outwitting a Game of Chance

Business Notes Entertainment
Child Care with a Silver Screen

Business Notes Experiments
The Colonel Goes into Space

Business Notes Publishing
The Mobil Man Tells His Tale

Business Notes Trade
Bullish on the Russian Bear

"Today Things Are Getting Badly Out of Hand"
Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn attacks the new abuses of takeover madness

A Reunion of Technological
Titans Ge and Rca Will Form a Powerhouse in Defense, Electronics and Broadcasting

Let's Make a Deal
A wave of raids and acquisitions is changing the face of U.S. industry

Spoiling for an Oil-Price War
Threatening to slash prices, some OPEC ministers stir a panic

The Texaco Star Strikes Out in Houston (Economy & Business)
A judge upholds a landmark jury decision and awards Pennzoil $11.1 billion

Balance Or Bias?
A challenge to class "monitors"

Blue-Chip Choice
Yale names a new president

Setting Off the Smoke Alarm
The A.M.A.'s anti-ad campaign strikes legal sparks

Taking the Sixth
Brennan short-circuits a wire

A Shelf of Small Wonders (Books)
Tales new and old from Andersen to Sendak

Legacy of a Cranky Colossus (Books)
The death of Robert Graves ends several eras

Lower Depths Runaway Train (Cinema)
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky Screenplay by Djordje Milicevic, Paul Zindel and Edward Bunker

Out of the Series Straitjacket (Video)
Anthology shows bring style and imagination to prime time

Rushes (Cinema)

The Maturing of Minimalism (Music)
A stunning new opera from America's avant-garde

The Three Faces of Steve the Color Purple (Cinema)
Directed by Steven Spielberg; Screenplay by Menno Meyjes

Tracing the Underground Stream (Art)
In London, a major but uneven survey of German modernism