Time Magazine Contents Page December 14, 1987
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COVER: Once again the competing stars of the global village share the screen
| The whole nation sized up Gorbachev and Reagan last week on television. This week the two meet to sign a historic arms treaty. -- A look at the evolution of the zero option, from hard- line proposal to reality. -- Raisa and Nancy will get together for coffee, but they won' t like it. -- Everyone seems to support the agreement -- except the Republican right wing. See NATION.
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WORLD: Frustrated Haitians see the after elections end in a bloodbath
Shock, despair, terror and anger grip the Caribbean nation after goon squads abort balloting, leaving at least 50 civilians dead and raising troubling questions about army complicity. -- Polish voters reject a government- proposed program of economic reform and austerity. -- With the U. S.- backed rebels gaining, the Soviets seek a quick exit from Afghanistan.
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CINEMA: In two bold Christmas movies Hollywood satirizes the new amorality
Wall Street and Broadcast News have enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s, but their subject is greed, '80s style. Charlie Sheen and William Hurt play an avid stockbroker and a laid- back TV journalist who have nothing on their minds but headlong success. Listen to their gaudy argot ! Watch them in perpetual motion ! They' ll be back at Oscar time.
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Economy & Business
A special report explores the reasons why Americans are such spendthrifts and the consequences of the failure to save.
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Space
NASA announces its plans for the Galileo mission to Jupiter in 1989 and awards contracts for the long- awaited space station.
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Video
TV offers an extraordinary week of gab and glasnost, as two leaders and twelve presidential candidates command prime time.
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Law
Federal agents seize $20 million worth of Florida property, the glitziest grab yet in the campaign to confiscate the fruits of crime.
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Design
Is London' s modern architecture as bad as Prince Charles says it is? There are brilliant exceptions, but in many cases, alas, yes.
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Books
For young readers, a seasonal menagerie of exotic creatures, from centaurs to parents. -- Novelist- Essayist James Baldwin dies.
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Art
In New York City, a singular exhibition argues that English Romanticism was the invention of painters as much as of poets.
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Essay
Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year' s. Racked with middle age, can Captain Midlife survive the season of extremes?
5 Letters
10 American Scene
68 Newswatch
75 Medicine
84 Sport
84 Milestones
89 Food
90 Health & Fitness
93 People
Cover: Photograph by Jacques Witt -- SIPA