Vol. 119 No. 12

NATION

A Lot of Show, but No Tell (COVER STORIES)

Judging Spies and Eyes

Terror, Right and Left
A bloody struggle rips Central America and endangers U.S. interests

The Powers That Would Be

Playing It Cool or Frozen in Ice?

Barbed Farewell

Needed: Strength and Patience (The Presidency/Hugh Sidey)

Hasty Exit

Arms Chill

Loose Talk and Stacked Cadavers

WORLD

A Hot and Holy War (PERSIAN GULF)

It Happens Every Spring (BRITAIN)

The Long Night of Martial Law (POLAND)

Snow Kidding

Songs of the Pentiti (ITALY)

SOCIETY

In California: Tremors on the Fault (American Scene)

Return of the Mini (Living)

PRESS

Late Late Show

Hindsight on Romantic Haze (Newswatch/Thomas Griffith)

RELIGION

Blueprint for Union

BUSINESS

Dangers in the Big Buildup (Economy & Business)

Bomb Bottleneck (Economy & Business)

Airlines in a Nose Dive (Economy & Business)

Hassled Cartel (Economy & Business)

Hands Off (Economy & Business)

Current Shock (Economy & Business)

Computer Coup (Economy & Business)

EDUCATION

Who Is Really Better at Math?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Grand Phantasmagoria (Music)

And Now, Fernwood 4-Real (Video)

Hail, Poetry (Show Business)

Gays to the Fore, Cautiously (Cinema)

Decline of the Wasp (Theater)

Hard Times in Hard-Cover Country (Books)

Trebles (Books)

Inflation (Books)

MILESTONES

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PEOPLE

Read the story

On The Record

TO OUR READERS

Read the story (A Letter From The Publisher)

LETTERS

To The Editors:

ESSAY

Have We Abandoned Excellence?

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