Vol. 125 No. 3

NATION

Shake-Up At the White House (Cover stories)
Reagan gets a tough new chief of staff

The Impact, in Dollars and Cents
What the changes will mean for tax reform and the budget

The Presidency
Looking Out for Uncle Sam

In Cold Pursuit

Only a Step, But an Encouraging One
The superpowers set more talks, though space weapons could be an obstacle

Wild Card on the Table
Star Wars complicates prospects for an arms-control agreement

American Notes New York
Zaccaro Pays the Price

An Unassuming Little Party
Reagan's second Inaugural will be a quiet, $10 million bash

For Rhyme and Reason
Regan has served Reagan with a mix of bluster and blind faith

Leaving the White House a Winner
Baker takes his finesse and competitive drive to Treasury

Seasoned for Combat

WORLD

Ethiopia Flight From Fear
Behind the famine, the grim outlines of a strategy to win a civil war

Israel Stormy Skies for a Refugee Airlift
Ethiopian Jews become embroiled in an international furor

New Caledonia Pacific Violence
Riots shatter a peace plan

Poland Keeping the Lid on Murder
A secret-police witness denies complicity at "the top"

Southeast Asia Assault and Pursuit
A Vietnamese blow to the Kampuchean resistance

SCIENCE

Better Spyglass on the Stars
A scheme for the world's biggest optical telescope

HEALTH & MEDICINE

The Ordeal of the Herpes Kids (Medicine)
Across the U.S., they are victims of school boycotts

SOCIETY

Low Profile for a Legend (Behavior)
Bernhard Goetz, the subway gunman, spurns aid and celebrity

PRESS

Of Meaning and Malice
The case of SHARON vs. TIME INC. goes to the jury

When the Camera Blinks
Truth, libel and the cutting-room floor

A Statement By Time

SPORT

Up in Arms: Two to Tangle
Marino-Montana in Super XIX

BUSINESS

Europe's Outlook Brightens Time's (Economy & Business)
Board of Economists foresees for 1985 the best growth in five years

Jilted (Economy & Business)
Calling off a rushed deal

Saturn Makes Its Debut At Gm (Economy & Business)
Breaking away from the past to build a new small car

Tip Tiff (Economy & Business)
Newsletters VS. the SEC

Business Notes Airlines (Economy & Business)
A Highflyer Runs Out of Fuel

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Death 'N' Things White Noise (Books)
by Don DeLillo Viking; 326 pages; $16.95

Directors Fiddle, Authors Burn (Theater)
Playwrights take a stand against radical "interpretations"

Jewel on the Mississippi (Music)
The stunning Ordway Theater debuts in St. Paul

New Light on the Old Master Henry James: Literary Criticism (Books)
Edited by Leon Edel and Mark Wilson Library of America; 2,892 pages; two volumes; $27.50 each

Yul Tide the King And (Theater)
I Music by Richard Rodgers; Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Autumn Goofs, Winter Repairs (Video)
The networks study their Nielsen report cards and try again

Beautiful Warts Prince Albert (Books)
by Robert Rhodes James Knopf; 299 pages; $17.95

Best Sellers (Books)

TO OUR READERS

A Letter From the Publisher (Publisher's Letter)

ESSAY

Toasting Mr. Goetz