Vol. 132 No. 18
NATION
Get Married Or Get Out
American Notes DETROIT
This Crime Is Off the Wall
American Notes THE CABINET
And Now One For the Vets
American Notes THE FARM BELT
The Drought's Toxic Harvest
Campaign Issues
Health Care: Beyond Bromides
Color Them Black
Two brothers trick Boston's affirmative action program
Ecotopia A Land Where Ideals And Sensuality Reign (American Ideas)
A California writer's ecological classic wins a new generation of admirers
Grapevine
Grapevine
Grapevine
Is It All Over? Not quite.
Dukakis is finally campaigning with populist passion -- and hoping for late-inning lightning
Nancy Reagan's "Little Rule"
The White House contends that her borrowing broke no law
Reagan Democrats' Divided Loyalties
Return of The Invisible Man
Jackson is back on the stump for Dukakis -- and himself
The Death of Dayna
Behind the curtains, scenes of Dickensian horror
WORLD
As mujahedin armies vie for dominance, the "Lion" plans the final campaign
Israel A Bitter Divorce
Why the campaign trail is even nastier and dirtier than usual
Prisoners And Converts
The Philippines Charging the Unindicted Guest
A grand jury accuses Marcos and his wife of racketeering
World Notes CENSORSHIP
Terror In, Rights Out
World Notes SOUTH AFRICA
The New Ball Game
World Notes SOVIET UNION
A Travel Permit For Sakharov
World Notes THE PHILIPPINES
How Much for The Bases?
Yugoslavia Talk, Talk -- Fight, Fight
Milosevic loses a battle, but his long-term prospects improve
SCIENCE
Remember El Nino? Now comes its cool sibling, La Nina
"They Lied to Us" (Environment)
Unsafe, aging U.S. weapons plants are stirring fear and disillusion
Helping Out Putu, Siku and Kanik (Nature)
Three trapped whales attract an army of unlikely saviors to a desolate stretch of Alaskan ice
RELIGION
Tumult over an activist priest threatens both church and state
SPORT
When those little Dodgers got thrown in with the mighty A's
TECHNOLOGY
A new way to make diamonds
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page Vol. 132 No. 18 OCTOBER 31, 1988
Time (Masthead)
Magazine masthead Vol. 132 No. 18 OCTOBER 31, 1988
BUSINESS
Cake, Candles Not Included
Business Notes FINANCE
A Little Help From Friends
Business Notes LITIGATION
Mutiny on the Lollipop
Business Notes MEMORIES
Secondhand Second City
Business Notes REAL ESTATE
The Baron Of Boardwalk
Cutting Red Tape to Save Lives
The FDA vows to speed up approval of breakthrough drugs
Food Fights on Wall Street
Grocery giants become the latest takeover targets
The Price of Power
Corporate fat cats throw their weight around in the 1988 campaign
EDUCATION
Boston University proposes to take over a city school system
LAW
A new forensic test is revolutionizing criminal prosecutions
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
New tabloid shows are thriving on sex and violent crime
Bearding The Butcher of Lyons HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE by Marcel Ophuls (Cinema)
Beguiling Visions RECKLESS (Theater)
by Craig Lucas
Birth Pangs (Books)
Bookends (Books)
Evoking The Spirit Ancestors (Art)
The ancient, mythic world of the Aborigines comes alive
Lightning In His Brain (Books)
On The Shoals DINNER AT EIGHT (Theater)
by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
Reggae's Bulgarian Acrobats (Music)
UB40 eases onto the chart tops with an old hit
The Lady Vamps THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (Cinema)
Directed and written by Ken Russell
What's Ticking on the Table? (Theater)
THE COCKTAIL HOUR by A.R. Gurney
SPECIAL SECTION
This year age received its deserts, and the chilled champagne was readily at hand
PEOPLE
Peter Peterson, Warning About the Perils of the U.S. Debt, Says That America's youth faces bankruptcy unless entitlements for the elderly are cut back