Vol. 132 No. 3
NATION
Draping an Old Eyesore
American Notes CONGRESS
Saving Fort Pork Barrel
American Notes DISASTER
Crushing Deluge
American Notes IMMIGRATION
Refugees Need Not Apply
Calls For Revenge -- and Caution
Despite Iranian threats, reaction to Flight 655's fate is muted
Dukakis Wants to Play by the Rules
What's so unnerving about a candidate who has actually read the Rio Treaty?
Frustrated But Jacqueline liked Kitty
Heading For An Override?
Senators okay a pro-labor bill
High-Tech Horror
How a $600 million system figured in a ghastly accident
Searching For Mr. Right And now for the swimsuit competition
The Presidency
Reagan on a Roller Coaster
Veni, Vidi, Vindicated?
Tarnished but unindicted, the Attorney General calls it quits
When Bad Things Are Caused by Good Nations
WORLD
Diplomacy Swords into Sample Cases
On the heavily armed Sino-Soviet border, tension is giving way to trade
Disaster "Screaming Like a Banshee"
An exploding platform takes 166 lives in the North Sea
Mexico Too Close For Comfort
A shaken P.R.I. claims victory
Soviet Union Cleaning Up the Confetti
Gorbachev moves to put party-conference reforms into action
World Notes ISRAEL
Very Deep Background
World Notes SOUTH KOREA
A Brotherly Hand
World Notes TAIWAN
Getting Back On Track
World Notes WEST GERMANY
Terrorism on Trial
World Notes YUGOSLAVIA
The Climate: Hot, Bothered
SCIENCE
A dramatic launch heralds a new era of missions to the Red Planet
The Perils of Zero Gravity (Space)
SOCIETY
Electronic gremlins have Americans tuning in their neighbors
RELIGION
Episcopalians enact an odd plan to avert a schism over women
SPORT
While visiting its past, tennis reorders its future
TECHNOLOGY
The Democrats plan the world's most automated convention
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 132 No. 3
Time Magazine Masthead July 18, 1988 (Masthead)
Vol. 132 No. 3
BUSINESS
As the jobless rate falls, companies confront growing labor shortages
Business Notes ELECTRONICS (Economy & Business)
The Dual VCR On Pause
Business Notes INDICTMENTS (Economy & Business)
A Little Too Clever?
Business Notes JAPAN (Economy & Business)
How to Make Pals with Pols
Business Notes MARKETS (Economy & Business)
Breaking the Next Fall
Mr. C., The Skills Sergeant (Economy & Business)
LAW
An octogenarian lawyer mixes courtroom and show-biz talents
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
At a remarkable auction, Soviet artists come into their own
Cartoony Caper A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cinema)
Directed by Charles Crichton Screenplay by John Cleese
Harry Sundown THE DEAD POOL (Cinema)
Directed by Buddy Van Horn Screenplay by Steve Sharon
Journals of The Plague Years (Books)
Three books reveal the risks and rewards of writing about AIDS
London's Dry Season (Theater)
Despite starry revivals, West End writing is wilting
Special Delivery UNSENT LETTERS (Books)
by Malcolm Bradbury Viking; 218 pages; $16.95
PEOPLE
William Bennett Is Leaving As Secretary Of Education, but his tart tongue and ample ego will keep him highly visible -- and audible -- and could well propel him higher in the G.O.P.