Vol. 133 No. 11
NATION
Flag-on-the-Floor Furor
American Notes DISEASES
Return of the Red Spots !
American Notes DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Will a Curfew Ring Tonight?
American Notes LOS ANGELES
A Holy Helicopter
Drawing The Line
In the Senate furor over John Tower's sobriety, some basic ethical concerns have been obscured
Primogeniture in The Windy City
Dick Daley's firstborn son may follow in hizzoner's footsteps
So Much for Bipartisanship
If the Republicans cannot save Tower, they are determined to tar the Democrats
The Mirror A Free Press Flourishes (American Ideas)
Behind Bars Lifer Robert Taliaferro runs an award-winning biweekly at a Minnesota jail
The Presidency
"Dead Soldiers" Along the Potomac
WORLD
Washington and Beijing clash over a famous dissident
Scandals The Looting of Greece
For the first time, a fallen tycoon tells how he embezzled millions
Venezuela Crackdown in Caracas
Austerity measures provoke an orgy of rioting and murder
World Notes EL SALVADOR
Turning the Tables
World Notes ISRAEL
The Likud Scores Big
World Notes TERRORISM
To Break or Not to Break
World Notes YUGOSLAVIA
Steps Toward The Abyss
SCIENCE
The movement to ban CFCs is starting to roll
HEALTH & MEDICINE
A new report calls for less fat, more starch and no vitamin pills
Trying To Fool the Infertile (Medicine)
Is in-vitro fertilization being oversold?
SOCIETY
The black middle class has everything the white middle class has, except a feeling that it really fits in
When The Boss Is Black (Living)
PRESS
As newspaper competition declines nationwide, three New York City papers slug it out for survival
RELIGION
A theologian's removal raises questions about the Vatican's role in U.S. Catholic higher education
SPORT
Ben Johnson's coach confirms steroid use
TECHNOLOGY
New Star Wars tools for Smokey and the bandits
Where The Action Is
In computers, workstations are the workhorses of the future
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 133 No. 11 MARCH 13, 1989
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Vol. 133 No. 11 MARCH 13, 1989
BUSINESS
Too Bawdy At the Bundys'
Business Notes AQUACULTURE
Catfish Hunters
Business Notes ELECTRONICS
The Big Picture
Business Notes TOBACCO
Requiem for A Stinker
Business Notes WAGES
Making Up for Lost Time
Get Down
Sears' new discount policy is drawing crowds, so far
Going For Broke at Eastern
The strike disrupts travel and could bankrupt the airline
Roundup Time for Teriyaki Beef
Japanese investors buy prime U.S. ranches and packinghouses
Tarnished Wings
To calm fears about flying, the airlines propose to overhaul their aging jets
EDUCATION
The Fight over School Choice
Should parents decide where their children are taught?
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
In those days, there really was gold in the Hollywood hills
A Burden of Answered Prayers (Books)
Critics' Choice (Critics' Choice)
Lying with A Straight Face (Cinema)
Tough Love (Cinema)
Withered Roots (Books)
SPECIAL SECTION
How frequent flyers frequently flee domestic-airline food
PEOPLE
SAM NUNN, John Tower's nemesis, has never flirted with charisma, but built a strong Senate presence on expertise, instinct and understated toughness