Vol. 130 No. 18
NATION
American Notes INDIANAPOLIS
Disaster on a "Dead Stick"
American Notes JUSTICE
Free at Last, Free at Last
American Notes MAINE
Big Vote Down East
American Notes THE SENATE
Closing the Book on Bork
American Notes WASHINGTON
Bell Tells A Sorry Story
Coping with The Crash
Pondering A High-Proof Defense
Deaver may say alcoholism caused him to mislead a grand jury
Snuffing A Summit
Gorbachev makes Star Wars the obstacle to a meeting with Reagan
Suffering From Ticker Shock
As the Dow rode a roller coaster, so did the presidential hopefuls
WORLD
Deadline Ready, aim, cease-fire?
A Back-Room Man Steps Forward (Japan)
Nakasone taps Takeshita as his successor
The Gulf Punch, Counterpunch
The U.S. avenges a missile attack, and Iran replies with a Silkworm
The Philippines Mean Momma
Aquino tries out a new act
World Notes BELGIUM
When More Is Not Better
World Notes FRANCE
For le Taxi, Blazing Seats
World Notes SRI LANKA
Tigers Too Tough to Tame
World Notes UNITED NATIONS
The Spanish Compromise
World Notes WEST GERMAN
Y Plane Goes, Pilot Stays
SCIENCE
Probing The Chambers of Cheops
Space-age technology reveals a 4,600-year-old wooden boat
Treasures Reclaimed from the Deep
Exclusive photographs of a rich trove of artifacts from the Titanic
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Was This Operation Necessary? (Medicine)
Doctors question the First Lady's mastectomy decision
SOCIETY
Examining The Limits of Life (Ethics)
A medical philosopher argues that longer is not always better
In Florida: "Lock Up!" And the Pulse Pounds (American Scene)
PRESS
Spy magazine draws blood from the stony Big Apple
SPORT
Right up to the end, there was no place like home
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 130 No. 18
Time Magazine Masthead November 2, 1987 (Masthead)
Vol. 130 No. 18
BUSINESS
One way or another, everyone is in the market, and anyone can lose
A Shock Felt Round the World (The Crash)
Stock markets plummet and climb between "hell and heaven"
Are Computers to Blame? (The Crash)
Baker: "Wait And See" (The Crash)
After The Fall (The Crash)
Greenspan's Big Test (The Crash)
In The Shadows of the Twin Towers (The Crash)
How America's budget and trade deficits grew to daunting heights
Once Upon A Time in October (The Crash)
A jazz-age tale of shattered illusions and vanished fortunes
Panic Grips The Globe (The Crash)
A crisis spotlights Washington's failures
Rewards For Foresight and Luck (The Crash)
Snapped by Their Own Suspenders Ouch! (The Crash)
Those yuppie brokers and bankers are bitten by the bear
The Rise and Fall of Bud Fox (The Crash)
The Shrinking of Fat City (The Crash)
Brokerages face bankruptcy, layoffs and maybe more regulation
Ways To Get Out from Under (The Crash)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Enchanted City AGENTS OF INNOCENCE (Books)
by David Ignatius Norton; 444 pages; $17.95
Surveying The State of the Lingo (Books)
THE RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: SECOND EDITION, UNABRIDGED 2,510 pages; $79.95
The Grand Maximalist (Art)
Frank Stella brings new life to abstract painting
The Way They Used to Make 'Em (Theater)
Two musical revivals bring some good old pizazz to Broadway
SPECIAL SECTION
Loss, Theories of Gain Honor for a Soviet emigre poet and an M.I.T. economist
Lyrics Of Loss, Theories of Gain (Nobel Prizes)
Honor for a Soviet emigre poet and an M.I.T. economist