Vol. 132 No. 16

NATION

American Notes
Don't Eat The Daisies

American Notes
In Sickness And in Stealth

American Notes Sauce for The Gander

American Notes The National Debt at $39.95

And Now, the Omaha Oscars

Campaign Issues Trade: Getting Back into the Game

Fighting For Water in the Colonias (American Ideas)
A Texas nun teaches Mexican Americans the uses of Chicago-style political activism

How It Plays In Toledo
The debate and the campaign as seen through the eyes of a key Rustbelt city

Ninety Long Minutes in Omaha
The overprogrammed Quayle was a poor match for Bentsen

Racism in The Raw In Suburban Chicago
Two harrowing tales show how brutal bias can still be

The Presidency
Dumb Question, Worse Answer

The Votes That Really Count

WORLD

Angola Where Blossoms And Bullets Grow
The foreigners may leave soon, but a civil war remains

Britain Man in the Middle
Labor's leader eases his line

Chile Fall of the Patriarch
Pinochet loses at the polls, but democracy is not the victor yet

Japan Dress Them In Mourning
As Hirohito's health declines, the mood turns somber

South Africa The Front Line Begins to Wobble
Botha travels the continent to breach black hostility

Soviet Union Perestroika Hits the KGB
Gorbachev attempts to bend the third pillar

Terrorism Many Rumors, One Release
Will more hostages be freed?

World Notes
A Record for Repression

World Notes
Progress Round The Clock

World Notes
Serbs 15 Politburo 0

World Notes
The Battle Of Algiers

SCIENCE

Big Trouble at Savannah River (Environment)
Probes of a nuclear plant reveal safety flaws and near accidents

PRESS

The Power at the Kingdom
A harsh new biography looks at ex-Times editor A.M. Rosenthal

Three-Piece Suit
Design changes at the Journal

RELIGION

Tuesday, The Rabbi Bought PTL
An odd new ownership for the moribund evangelistic empire

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Critics' Choice

Time (Contents)
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BUSINESS

Business Notes
A Ragtop for The Long Haul

Business Notes
Recipe for A Takeover

Business Notes
Trim a Little Off the Top

Business Notes
Unlikely Copilots

Business Notes
We Really Must Insist

Special Report: One Year Later It Was the Best of Times
The crash has made winners of raiders, investigators and con men

Special Report: The Crash, One Year Later...It Was the Worst of Times
The losers include fallen gurus, battered brokers and rich dropouts

Special Report: The Crash, One Year Later
A Financial House of Cards

EDUCATION

Balancing Minds and Souls
How Catholic should Catholic colleges be?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Beat Box with Four Octaves (Music)
Singer Bobby McFerrin breaks big and gets happy -- very happy

A Flawed Hero in a Flawed War (Books)

Atavistic Gondolas (Books)

The Big Boys' Blues (Video)
Challenged by cable, VCRs and an audience eager to zap, the networks face the most troubled fall in their history

Knockdown Duel (Cinema)

Other Voices, Other Rooms (Cinema)

Seeing Degas As Never Before (Art)
A superb retrospective of the great French realist opens in New York City

The New Season: Boomers and Humors (Video)

Wise Guy (Books)

SPECIAL SECTION

The Smiling Lures Of Thailand (Travel)
A hot holiday spot offers exoticism and bargains

PEOPLE

A Most Uncommon Scold Allan Bloom, Criticized As Sexist and Elitist for Insisting That Students Master the Foundations Of (Interview)
Western civilization, sees "a new kind of thought control" at work.

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