Vol. 131 No. 6

NATION

"I Was Trained to Ask Questions"
Combative and high-strung, Dan Rather remains more reporter than anchorman

"Shoot Him! Shoot Him!"

A Pre-Primary Report

Ailes: The Selling of Toughness

American Notes CIVIL RIGHTS
Grove City Limits

American Notes DIPLOMACY
A Stay-at-Home Envoy

American Notes PENNSYLVANIA
After 37 Years, An Arrest

American Notes SUPREME COURT
At Last, A Justice

American Notes UTAH
Fulfilling the Prophecy

Bad Habits Die Hard
The FBI is accused of political snooping and racial harassment

Bushwhacked!
Dan Rather sets sparks flying in a showdown with the Vice President

Getting To Know Them
What the long Iowa campaign revealed about the candidates

In The Kingdom of Television

Inf Faces a Final Hurdle
The Senate presses some of its own ideas about the missile treaty

More Trouble for Meese
Was the Attorney General asked to condone a bribe?

Political Grapevine 1986

The Phantom of Iranscam

WORLD

Australia Doing Their Forefathers Proud
But a 200th birthday bash is clouded by the aborigines' plight

Austria In Search of the Smoking Gun
A historian claims new evidence links Waldheim to atrocities

Central America Putting Guns on The Table
As talks begin, the debate over rebel aid intensifies

Colombia Day of the Assassins
The drug lords carry out a bloody attack to silence a top lawman

Israel Crisis of Conscience
The Palestinian crackdown stirs consternation among foreign friends

Managua's Man in D.C.

The Missing Uzbek Billions

World Notes CHINA
From Fame To Shame

World Notes DIPLOMACY
Getting Their Irish Up

World Notes PANAMA
A Briefcase for The General?

World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
The Bloom Fades

World Notes SOVIET UNION
Pulling the Plug On a Nuke

HEALTH & MEDICINE

A Taste of The Past (Food)

Aids peak From new tests to new viruses (Medicine)

Aspirin: The Cardiologist's Dream? (Medicine)
A homely prevention for heart disease gets mixed reviews

Have Your Cake -- and Eat It Too (Health & Fitness)
A new fat substitute heralds a dazzling era of phony foods

The Bagel Takes to the Road (Food)
Mainstream America eats it up -- but has it lost authenticity?

SOCIETY

In New Jersey: Capturing Nature in Glass (American Scene)

Voila! It's Fun a Lacroix (Living)
The new king of couture brings back the magic

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

A Disdain for Respectability (Newswatch)

Time (Contents)
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Time (Masthead)
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BUSINESS

Business Notes AGRICULTURE (Economy & Business)
Crushed Cranberries

Business Notes AUCTIONS (Economy & Business)
Back in the Saddle Again

Business Notes BANKRUPTCY (Economy & Business)
Buried Under a Nuclear Pile

Business Notes THE ECONOMY (Economy & Business)
A Surge Before The Slump?

Business Notes TRADE (Economy & Business)
Roaring Back At the Tigers

Can This Elephant Dance? (Economy & Business)
IBM streamlines operations to shake its lead-footed image

Here Come "Malls Without Walls" (Economy & Business)
Hypermarkets sell everything from antifreeze to zoom lenses

System Failure (Economy & Business)
Black Monday's other crash

Tougher Than the Rest (Economy & Business)
No longer does Raider Carl Icahn merely take the money and run

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Midsummer Night's Madness THE BOOK AND THE BROTHERHOOD by Iris Murdoch Viking; 607 pages; $19.95 (Books)

Music Of The Night THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Theater)
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe; Book by Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber

Not Fair RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN (Books)
by Jonathan Kozol Crown; 261 pages; $16.95

Samovars Without Stereotypes THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Theater)
By Anton Chekhov

Sex And Death in Czechoslovakia (Cinema)
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING Directed by Phil Kaufman Screenplay by Jean-Claude Carriere and Phil Kaufman

Winning The Old-Fashioned Way (Books)
Farrar, Straus reaps prizes and profits on a shoestring

PEOPLE

Roaming the Cosmos (Profile)
Physicist STEPHEN HAWKING is confined to a wheelchair, a virtual prisoner in his own body, but his intellect carries him to the far reaches of the universe

TO OUR READERS

A Letter From the Publisher (A Letter From The Publisher)

ESSAY

Whose Foreign Policy Is It Anyway?