Time Magazine Contents Page February 23, 1987

COVER: The wild animals of Africa: now 34

you see them; soon, perhaps, you won' t

East Africa, where the wild things are, is an earthly paradise, a dream kingdom where the actual and the psychic coincide. It is also a killing field. Kenya, infested by poachers and suffering the highest rate of population growth in the world, has become a proving ground for extinction. Can the wild animals survive? And if they vanish, what exactly will have been lost? See ESSAY.

NATION: The Government joins more than 22

40 states in a crusade to restrict smoking

In the most sweeping attempt to regulate a personal practice since Prohibition, countless new laws tell Americans where they can and cannot light up. -- A taciturn central figure in Iranscam feels the pressure and attempts suicide. -- As the baby boomers mature, the baby- bust generation is poised to make an impact of its own. -- A drug- interdiction program sputters in a slow start.

BUSINESS: Insider- trading arrests once 64

again cause fear and shock on Wall Street

) With the help of a highly placed informant, federal authorities dramatically arrest three prominent members of the Manhattan financial community for profiting on private stock- market information. Investigations of insider trading continue to widen. Meanwhile, the practice has become a stain with the potential to blacken the reputation of the entire investment industry.

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World

In a pair of thoroughly mixed signals, Moscow frees some political dissidents but cracks down hard on refuseniks. -- A threatened execution of Beirut hostages does not take place, but little hope for their freedom can be found. -- Mexico is seized by a swelling current of discontent. -- A new generation of student protesters takes to the streets.

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Medicine

Lou Gehrig' s disease strikes three former San Francisco 49ers. One suspected cause: a fertilizer used on their practice field.

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Ethics

At a Boston conference, experts debate the issue of cutting off nourishment to hopelessly comatose patients.

72

Law

A bribery scandal cripples the Philadelphia judicial system as local caseloads back up. -- The sad case of Sir Rudolf Bing.

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Education

With too many students and too much work, high school counselors often fail to help bewildered seniors heading for college.

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Music

Tosca set in 1944? Carmen in an urban dump? The place to go for innovative opera productions is not the U. S. but Europe.

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Health & Fitness

Calcium fever is sweeping the country, but scientists warn that it is no panacea for osteoporosis, the degenerative bone disease.

12 Letters

14 American Scene

73 Milestones

75 Books8

86 Video

92 People

Cover: Photograph by Neil Leifer