Time Magazine Contents Page February 1, 1988

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COVER: A tough city principal stirs a national debate over discipline and learning

The seismic clash between cocky, contentious Joe Clark of Eastside High and the Paterson, N. J., school board has catapulted a back- burner conversation among academics about the quality of urban schools into front- page and prime- time news. President Reagan says Clark has the right stuff. Most educators, however, believe the bat- toting principal swings too hard. See EDUCATION.

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NATION: The primary race shifts from a beauty contest to a debate on economics

Budget realism becomes the test as the candidates stake out positions on taxes, trade and Social Security. -- Once again, Ronald Reagan will ask for a line- item budget veto. This year, more in Congress are listening. -- Eager to launch a refitted shuttle, NASA' S contractors have let the schedule override safety concerns. -- In Utah, polygamists defy police in a log cabin siege.

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BOOKS: The season' s crime crop yields mysteries in many guises and disguises

The settings range from an Indian hill station to funky downtown Detroit. The protagonists include a 12th century monk and a modern gay insurance investigator. No wonder crime fiction often seems to be not one genre but many. Its best, most venturesome writers, like the players in Hamlet, perform in veins lyrical, tragical, comical and historical -- and above all enjoyable.

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World

As the Sandinistas continue to wage peace in Central America, Washington braces for a crucial congressional vote on contra aid. -- Noriega stubbornly clings to power in Panama. -- Israel switches from bullets to beatings in attempting to control Palestinian unrest. -- Mozambique suffers under the double grip of famine and civil war.

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Economy & Business

Defying all expectations, health costs continue to soar. -- The Pentagon' s new buyer. -- De Benedetti raids Belgium Inc.

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Space

A Soviet cosmonaut recovers from a record 326- day mission in record time. -- Reagan okays high- resolution U. S. satellite photos.

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Ethics

Should doctors use organs and tissue from brain- absent newborns and aborted fetuses to treat otherwise incurable diseases?

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Sexes

Are women beginning to act like men in the workplace? The authors of a new book decry female rivalry and envy on the job.

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Sport

Washington and Denver go this way and that way to Super Bowl XXII. -- Requiem for Holmes. -- Mandingo and the Greek.

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Essay

Everyone clamors for presidential candidates to espouse a vision of America' s future. But is there really a vision in the house?

9 Letters

60 Press

61 Medicine

61 Living

62 People

64 Theater

71 Cinema

74 Milestones

Cover: Photograph by Joe McNally -- Wheeler Pictures