Vol. 130 No. 17

NATION

"I Guess It's My Turn"
Nancy Reagan bravely endures a modified radical mastectomy

American Notes CANDIDATES
Scandal on Saturday Night

American Notes FLORIDA
Salacious, But Sober

American Notes NEW YORK
The Zaccaros Win One

American Notes REVOLUTIONARIES
Buy My Book, You Racist Pig

American Notes WASHINGTON
A Salute to The Sailors

One Went Right
Woes from Wall Street to the gulf -- but a happy ending in Texas

Wall Street's October Massacre
A week's 235-point loss stuns the market

Where Are the Wingers?
A muted conservative movement watches Bush and Dole rise

WORLD

Burkina Faso Upright Down
A leader is deposed and killed

Golden Opportunity for Don Oscar (Central America)
Awarded the Nobel Prize, Arias hopes the honor will help propel his peace plan

Medal Fatigue

Sri Lanka The Battle for Jaffna
Indian troops mount a bloody assault on a Tamil stronghold

The Gulf Silkworm's Sting
Two tankers are hit by missiles, prompting talk of U.S. retaliation

World Notes GREECE
Papandreou's Hart Attack

World Notes HAITI
Murder on the Campaign Trail

World Notes SOVIET UNION
Your Check Is In the Mail

World Notes THE PHILIPPINES
Politics Makes Strange Beds

World Notes WEST GERMANY
A Mystery in The Bath

SOCIETY

A Just War (American Scene)

Jeep Chic Shifts into High (Living)
Four-wheelers are no longer just for macho men

SPORT

Internal Strife at the World Series
The roof's the limit for Herzog's Cardinals and Kelly's Twins

The Line Crumbles

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page OCTOBER 26, 1987 Vol. 130 No. 17

Time Magazine Masthead October 26, 1987 (Masthead)
Vol. 130, No. 17

BUSINESS

"We Are in a Heap of Trouble" (Economy & Business)
Seabrook may be the first nuclear plant to bankrupt a utility

Business Notes MARKETING (Economy & Business)
Mini-Ads, Maxi-Revenue

Business Notes NEW PRODUCTS (Economy & Business)
My, What Ugly Mugs!

Business Notes PACKAGING (Economy & Business)
Taking Offense At Breakfast

Business Notes PATENTS (Economy & Business)
Too Close For Corning

Business Notes TRAVEL (Economy & Business)
An American? Not Me

Familiar Tune (Economy & Business)
Argentina talks about austerity

Staying Home Is Paying Off (Economy & Business)
Technology sparks the spread of residential offices

EDUCATION

Don't Go Near The Dollars
The Columbia B-school vetoes a $100,000 classroom offer

Meanwhile, At Harvard

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Academic Blight THE NEW HISTORY AND THE OLD (Books)
by Gertrude Himmelfarb Harvard University; 209 pages; $20

Bookends (Books)

Elvis Meets the Bacchae In Philadelphia, two new musicals -- or are they really operas? (Music)

Just A Few Minutes of Bliss LEAVING HOME (Books)
by Garrison Keillor; Viking; 244 pages; $18.95

Misanthrope Woman in the Mists (Books)
by Farley Mowat Warner; 380 pages; $19.95

Skirmishing Along the Borders BURN THIS (Theater)
by Lanford Wilson

SPECIAL SECTION

A Day in the Life . . . of the Soviet Union
All photographs from A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union, to be published in November. Copyright (c) 1987 Collins Publishers, Inc.

Feats Of Inspiration and Originality Involving superconductors, molecules and gene theory (Nobel Prizes)

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