Vol. 131 No. 2
NATION
Full Leather Jacket
American Notes CRIME
A Holiday Killing Spree
American Notes FUGITIVES
Back from The Dead
American Notes SCIENCE
And the Winner Is . . .
American Notes TRANSPORTATION
Gimme a Break!
Can You Spare a Dime -- for Bail?
Seattle joins in a crackdown on pushy panhandlers
1968 Like a knife blade, the year severed past from future
Putting The Pedal to the Metal
Congress sneaks through an expansion of the 65-m.p.h. limit
Still Grounded
Another setback for the shuttle
The Teflon Twins of 1988
Why no one wants to roughhouse with Jackson and Robertson
Toward A Nerve-Gas Arms Race
The U.S. takes up a chemical "deterrent"
WORLD
Rebel and government forces wage their fiercest battle in years
Japan In the Land of Mickey-San
Celebrating the New Year in a different kind of shrine
Middle East Trials and Errors
Israeli justice imposes an uneasy calm
Northern Ireland Days of Fear and Hope
Ulster has little choice but to watch and wait
The Gulf "Arrows To Our Chests"
As Iran blusters, the Arabs discuss defense
World Notes ART
Signed by A. Hitler
World Notes BRITAIN
3,164 Days and Counting
World Notes COLOMBIA
A Drug Kingpin Goes Free
World Notes EAST AFRICA
Back from The Brink
World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
Sic Transkei Gloria
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Get the blahs every winter? You may be a SAD victim
When Guinea Pigs Become Patients (Medicine)
Ailing animals now rate treatments developed for their masters
SOCIETY
Yuppies take up a classic
PRESS
A Little Longer in the Limelight
RELIGION
After a long ban, churches enjoy an unmatched expansion
TECHNOLOGY
Brave new spying devices make the world safer for arms control
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 131 No. 2
BUSINESS
The cruise industry rides a new wave of success
Business Notes HOLLYWOOD (Economy & Business)
The Downfall Of Dino
Business Notes IMPORTS (Economy & Business)
Shoot-Out over Recycled Rifles
Business Notes MEXICO (Economy & Business)
A Debtor's Swap Meet
Business Notes RAILROADS (Economy & Business)
New Coupling On the Rails
Out with The Old, In with the Blue (Economy & Business)
Financial markets gyrate as anxieties over the economy rise
Outlawing A Three-Wheeler (Economy & Business)
So What If It's Bankrupt? (Economy & Business)
France's Sanofi wins Robins with a $3 billion bid
EDUCATION
Foreigners are swamping graduate science schools
LAW
Is Texas Justice for Sale?
The state's top judge resigns to fight for reform
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Connoisseurs Of Lost Causes THE TENANTS OF TIME (Books)
by Thomas Flanagan; Dutton; 824 pages; $21.95
Invisible Army "C" (Books)
by Anthony Cave Brown Macmillan; 830 pages; $25
Let's Do the Time Warp Again (Music)
An economic and spiritual crisis besets U.S. orchestras and opera companies
The Return of Comedy as King (Cinema)
Baby mirth and bawdy Murphy strike box-office gold
PEOPLE
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