Vol. 128 No. 19

NATION

American Notes Air Traffic
Less Friendly Skies

American Notes Drug Abuse
Testing the Waters

American Notes Government
Leaky Ship of State

American Notes Military
Aid Jets for a Friend

American Notes Presidents
Postmark Monticello

Call to Battle
A national panel urges a campaign to avert an AIDS "catastrophe"

Dirty Carpets
The U.N. makes do with less

End of the Six-Year Ice Follies
In New York City, the rink that could not be fixed finally reopens

Farewell to a Quartet of Kings of the Hill
Four retiring members of Congress represent the passing of political traditions

No Nukes
Did Reagan blunder?

The Presidency
"We'Ll Talk About Everything"

The Risk to Heterosexuals

Top Guns, Handguns and Raw Pork |
Congress fires selfish shots at military contracts

WORLD

Britain More Scandalous Than Fiction
The Tories' deputy chairman resigns after a prostitute payoff

Enrile: "I Am Not Speaking Out of Turn"

Israel Tattletale
A nuclear technician vanishes

Lebanon Hostage Release
David Jacobsen's freeing raises hopes for more to come

Saudi Arabia a Wild Goodbye to Mr. Oil
Yamani is fired as energy minister after two decades of power

Soviet Union Artful Candor
Fresh looks at Stalin

The Philippines Putting Politics Back in the Streets
Enrile and Laurel step up the offensive against Aquino

World

HEALTH & MEDICINE

See Jane Run (and Do Likewise) (Health & Fitness)
Columnist Brody hectors Americans into better habits

SOCIETY

In Connecticut: Game Time (American Scene)

The Color of New Blood (Living)
Some snazzy duds from three upstarts

PRESS

Passing the Metroliner Test
CBS News gets a new president and a boost in morale

St. Louis Blues
The Globe-Democrat sinks

RELIGION

A Summit for Peace in Assisi
World religious leaders pray, not as one, but together

SPORT

Only So Much Excitement
The brash Mets and brittle Red Sox fulfill their destinies

STYLE & DESIGN

An "a" List for the Baby Boom (Design)
Singling out the decade's up-and-coming young architects

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

World Notes Austria
Muddying the Cloudy Waters

World Notes Ethiopia
A Moderate Bows Out

World Notes Japan
Dangerous Souvenir

World Notes Libya
A Long and Busy Arm

World Notes South Korea
Pitched Battle At Konkuk U.

BUSINESS

"Strap on Your Seat Belts!" (Economy & Business)
Program traders shake the exchanges with swift transactions

Business Notes Fairs (Economy & Business)
Expo Artifacts: Going, Gone

Business Notes Investments (Economy & Business)
Too Good to Last Forever

Business Notes Press (Economy & Business)
Bad Dispatch for U.P.I.

Business Notes Trade (Economy & Business)
Every Little Bit Helps

Business Notes Trademarks (Economy & Business)
Who Ya Gonna Call, Fatso?

Manic Market (Economy & Business)
Is computer-driven stock trading good for America?

Roaring into Tax Reform (Economy & Business)
Under the new rules, Wall Street may be a big winner

EDUCATION

What Is College For?
Careers, say students; learning, argues a major new study

LAW

Trouble with Fighting Back
A Miami storekeeper escapes a manslaughter indictment

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

"There's Magic in the Night" (Music)
A new Springsteen live album is born to stun

A Look At a Beautiful Impasse (Art)
Morris Louis' paintings embody the discourse of pure hue

Books (Books)

Desperately Seeking Something (Cinema)
Two new films strike out on the road to eccentricity

Double Image Group Sex (Books)
by Ann Arensberg Knopf; 175 pages; $15.95

Loners & Losers the Last Worthless Evening: Four Novellas & Two (Books)
Stories by Andre Dubus GODINE; 214 PAGES; $15.95

The Melancholy Life of Uncle Anton Chekhov (Books)
by Henri Troyat; Translated by Michael Henry Heim Dutton; 364 pages; $22.50

Up the Creek the Mission (Cinema)
Directed by Roland Joffe Screenplay by Robert Bolt

PEOPLE

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TO OUR READERS

A Letter From the Publisher (Publisher's Letter)

ESSAY

What Has Happened to Totalitarianism?