Vol. 132 No. 13

NATION

American Notes BUREAUCRACY
Putting on The Ritz

American Notes CRIME
A Drug King's Midas Touch

American Notes FLORIDA
Why Lotto Can Be a Loser

American Notes PARENTS
Losing a Child -- Twice

American Notes WASHINGTON
The FBI's Sorry Story

Back On Track
How Dukakis took some tips from Bush's message playbook

Campaign Issues
Soviet Policy: Beyond Containment

Friends In High Places
The President has become Bush's most ardent campaigner

It Was No Breeze
The century's biggest storm terrifies Texas after devastating the Caribbean

Jamaica: A Decade Lost in a Day

Taking Time For Children
With Bush's blessing, workers may win parental leave

The Candidates' Love Match
Somebody please stop them before they hug again

The Great Debate Scorecard

Was Reagan Out of It?

Why Wait a Week to Kill?
The gun lobby overwhelms an attempt to restrict handguns

WORLD

Burma The Armed Forces Seize Power
A civilian president is ousted as the revolutionary tide rises

Haiti A New General Takes Command
After a slaughter in a sanctuary, a coup topples the military leader

Southern Africa Hope, Blood And Defiance
A hijacking mars a papal visit

United Nations Peace on the March
With the U.N. regaining stature, the U.S. ends a long financial siege

West Germany Chipping Away At Terrorism
Hammadi is named as a killer

Where Is the Outrage?

World Notes BRITAIN
Le Carre, Call MI5, Fast

World Notes DIPLOMACY
New Year's Surprise

World Notes GREECE
Love Among The Ruins

World Notes JAPAN
Tight Little Islands

World Notes SOVIET UNION
A New Airing For Old Gripes

SCIENCE

The Secrets of A Moche Lord
Peruvian archaeologists unearth a treasure trove

Tracking The Radon Threat (Environment)
The danger, say officials, is worse than previously believed

HEALTH & MEDICINE

"A Fire Hose Down the Ear Canal" (Health & Fitness)
These days, even rockers are admitting their hearing is shot

Of Mice as Stand-Ins for Men (Medicine)
Breakthrough research gives the animals human immune systems

SOCIETY

In Vermont: When Woody Allen Meets L.L. Bean (American Scene)

What The Kids Are Wearing (Living)
From blazers to biker shorts, school days mean smarting up

PRESS

A Mild Matron Goes Modern
The Christian Science Monitor launches a TV newscast

Not The News

SPORT

Fantastic Flight of Fancy (Olympics Special Section)
Everywhere in Seoul, a celebration of the greatest athletic gathering in history

Olympic Shorts (Olympics Special Section)
Empty Rooms With a View

Olympic Shorts (Olympics Special Section)
Protest Pro Forma

Olympic Shorts (Olympics)
The Field's Fiercest Rivals

TECHNOLOGY

"You Must Be Punished"

Invasion of the Data Snatchers
A "virus" epidemic strikes terror in the computer world

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

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BUSINESS

Business Notes AUTOS (Economy & Business)
Return of the Lead Sleds

Business Notes LITIGATION (Economy & Business)
The Copper-7's Costly Legacy

Business Notes MEETINGS (Economy & Business)
Securing Berlin For Bankers

Business Notes RETAILING (Economy & Business)
A Tailor-Made Lawsuit

Buy Stocks? No Way! (Economy & Business)
Spurning Wall Street, small investors put their money elsewhere

Good News on Trade -- But Beware (Economy & Business)
With U.S. factories overburdened, imports may stay high

Teaming Up Against Big Blue (Economy & Business)
Makers of IBM clones rally behind their own computing standard

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Long Way from St. Louis (Books)
Marking T.S. Eliot's centenary, not with a whimper but a bang

A Terminal Case of Brotherly Love DEAD RINGERS (Cinema)
Directed by David Cronenberg Screenplay by David Cronenberg and Norman Snider

Memory's Screen THE MAGIC LANTERN (Books)
by Ingmar Bergman Translated by Joan Tate Viking; 308 pages; $19.95

Nowhere To Go but Up (Music)
The San Francisco Opera, with a new chief, aims to rise anew

Twin Shrines to the Silver Screen (Show Business)
In New York and London, new motion-picture museums charm and dazzle

PEOPLE

Egghead At the Plate (Profile)
To A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI, former Yale president and future boss of baseball, the game is not just an Edenic pageant but a marvelous mix between individual and community

TO OUR READERS

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