Vol. 129 No. 7

NATION

American Notes DIPLOMACY
More Gems From Perle

American Notes HEALTH
Born in The U.S.A.

American Notes MINNESOTA
A Mother's Search

American Notes TENNESSEE
Rambo Comes To High School

Campaign Portrait
Winning Hearts Through Minds Hart plays the politics of antipolitics

Can We Talk?

Casey's Well-Groomed Successor
New CIA Chief Robert Gates must restore the agency's image

Faith in A True Believer
Oliver North draws support from conservatives and charismatics

Fixing Welfare
A consensus is emerging on the need for radical reform

Sounder Of Alarms

Testers And Protesters
In Nevada, nuclear explosions are both a livelihood and a threat

The Presidency
Tips from a Tonsorial Tout

WORLD

"Something Is Happening Here"

Colombia
The Fall of a Cocaine Kingpin A brutal drug lord is captured and extradited to Florida

Haiti
Limping Toward Democracy One year after Duvalier's ouster, bitterness and unrest persist

Middle East Gunboat Diplomacy
The U.S. makes a show of force as the hostage war goes on and on

South Africa Running Against America
The white election campaign opens with blasts at Washington

Soviet Union
Travelers to a Changing Land Kissinger and friends pay a call on Gorbachev's Moscow

The Philippines
The Sweet, Sweet Taste of Victory Voters resoundingly endorse Aquino and her new constitution

What's Up, Baby Doc?

World Notes ALBANIA
What Could Be More Perfect?

World Notes BRITAIN
Police Drama At the BBC

World Notes CHILE
Troubled Conscience

World Notes DIPLOMACY
New Elephants Instead of War

World Notes ENVIRONMENT
An Ill Wind From the East

SOCIETY

Cover Stories "You Haven't Heard Anything Yet" (Living)
Health officials wrestle with the onslaught of history's newest epidemic

Cover Stories: In the Grip Of the Scourge (Living)
Deaths in Africa reach 5,000, and millions more are at risk

Cover Stories The Big Chill: Fear of Aids (Living)
How heterosexuals are coping with a disease that can make sex deadly

Cover Stories: Tracing a Killer (Living)

PRESS

The War That No One Can Cover
Reporting on the Nicaraguan contras is a frustrating standoff

RELIGION

Protestantism's
Foreign Legion Record numbers of missionaries are heading overseas

SPORT

Fremantle
Says Good on Yer, Mates America's Cup comes home, brimming with Aussie generosity

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page FEBRUARY 16, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 7

Time Magazine Masthead February 16, 1987 (Masthead)
Vol. 129 No. 7

BUSINESS

Business Notes AUTOS (Economy & Business)
Here Come Oltcit and Dacia

Business Notes OIL (Economy & Business)
Is the Wild Ride Over?

Business Notes POLLUTION CONTROL (Economy & Business)
A Sweet Side To Acid Rain

Business Notes TELEPHONES (Economy & Business)
Long-Distance Family Feud

Business Notes TRANSPORTATION (Economy & Business)
A Coffee Cup On Wheels

Special Report On Corporate Restructuring (Economy & Business)
Rebuilding To Survive U.S. industry is launched on a dramatic drive for greater efficiency

The Cities Main Street Feels the Pinch (Economy & Business)
Communities learn to live with plant closings

The Companies (Economy & Business)
Two in Pursuit Of a Turnaround Results can be swift or frustratingly slow

The People Forced to Make a Fresh Beginning (Economy & Business)
Layoffs pose the challenge of a lifetime

EDUCATION

B Is for Billion
Stanford drives for a record

Can Colleges Teach Thinking?
Maybe not, suggests a new test measuring "reflective judgment"

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Synonym for Glorious Excess (Show Business)
Wladziu Valentino Liberace: 1919-1987

Odd (Books)
Couple A FRIENDSHIP: THE LETTERS OF DAN ROWAN AND JOHN D. MACDONALD, 1967-1974 Knopf; 239 pages; $18.95

Panorama Little Wilson and Big God (Books)
by Anthony Burgess; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 460 pages; $22.50

Sounds in The Night (Music)
Has the restored Carnegie Hall kept its acoustical magic?

Stirring Up The Comrades (Video)
Phil Donahue takes his talk show to the Soviet Union

The Ghost of Alfred Hitchcock (Cinema)
Three new thrillers measure themselves against an old master

The (Books)
Power and the Glamour THE FITZGERALDS AND THE KENNEDYS by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Simon & Schuster; 932 pages; $22.95

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