Vol. 130 No. 20

NATION

American Notes CALIFORNIA
"Stable and Wholesome"

American Notes CANDIDATES
Makin' Up Is Hard to Do

American Notes HUNGER
Pass the Potatoes

American Notes PHILADELPHIA
Goode Enough For a Win

American Notes SAILING
A True Rite Of Passage

Campaign Portrait
Some of That Old-Time Religion Simon's simple sermon catches fire

Changing of The Guards
Weinberger's exit removes the Administration's "Svengali of Star Wars"

Dole Buries His Hatchet
But the edge remains

Have Influence, Will Travel
Deaver's clout cost big bucks

Mississippi Rises Again
A new young Governor promises an era of reform

Sins of The Past
Drug Use derails Ginsburg's nomination.

The General Takes Command

The Misadventures of el Patron
Congress and the courts close in on Contra Supporter John Hull

With A Friend Like This . . .

WORLD

Central America Eyeing a Dialogue
Ortega offers half an olive branch, but Washington insists on the whole bough

El Salvador: Riddled with Fear
A people so terrorized that the wounds may never heal

Nicaragua: At War With Itself
A revolution still in search of a lasting purpose

Ortega: "This Is the Limit"

Soviet Union Lifting the Veil on History
In a key speech, Gorbachev blasts Stalin and lauds Khrushchev

Tunisia Defeat of the Supreme Combatant
Bourguiba, in power 31 years, is ousted by his Prime Minister

World Notes DIPLOMACY
Will Planes in Spain Remain?

World Notes FRANCE
Deja Vu All Over Again

World Notes HAITI
Voting with Their Torches

World Notes ISRAEL
Let's Get Physical

World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
Freedom For a Holdout

HEALTH & MEDICINE

A Battle Against Deadly Dust (Medicine)
Doctors join forces to treat radiation victims in Brazil

Off The Scales and into the Tub (Health & Fitness)
What counts today is not what you weigh, but how much is fat

Wash & Sweat (Health & Fitness)

SOCIETY

Dual Careers, Doleful Dilemmas (Sexes)
When husband and wife work, whose ambitions come first?

In Brazil: Echoes from the Confederacy (American Scene)

RELIGION

A Jerry-Built Coalition Regroups
Falwell's exit changes the landscape of the Religious Right

SPORT

Carried Away In Syracuse
Clinging to tradition, the Orangemen are undefeated

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Newswatch
More Professional, Less Human

Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page November 16, 1987 Vol. 130 No. 20

Time (Masthead)
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BUSINESS

Business Notes BROADCASTING (Economy & Business)
Fozzie on the Bear Market

Business Notes LITIGATION (Economy & Business)
Last Stand For Texaco

Business Notes PUBLISHING (Economy & Business)
The Unkindest Cut of All

Business Notes TRADE (Economy & Business)
No More Cheap Chips

End of The Comfort Factor (Economy & Business)
Mutual funds provide a thin cushion against the crash

Fraud (Business Notes)
Hard Times for A Real J.R.

Looking The Other Way (Economy & Business)
The U.S. lets its currency take a steep dive

The Declining Dollar: Not a Simple Cure (Economy & Business)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Web of the Way We Live Now THE RADIANT WAY (Books)
by Margaret Drabble; Knopf; 408 pages; $18.95

Bringing Back a Debacle (Dance)
The Joffrey reconstructs Diaghilev's scandalous Le Sacre

Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt (Cinema)

Getting Close to Stardom (Cinema)

Peacekeeper a Life in Peace and War (Books)
by Brian Urquhart Harper & Row; 390 pages; $25

Some Enchanted Evening INTO THE WOODS (Theater)
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine

Tinsel And Truth TALES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS (Video)
PBS, Fridays, 9 p.m. on most stations

Trajectories Rock Springs (Books)
by Richard Ford Atlantic Monthly Press 235 pages; $17.95

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