Vol. 126 No. 7
SPORT
All it takes is 200 hits for 20 years and then 192 more
A Win for the Fans (Cover Stories)
The owners balk, the players walk, then Ueberroth gets the save
Failures Can't Come Home (Sports / Cover Stories)
The Benefits Not in a Contract
A weekend of excellence sets up a joyful contrast
NATION
One quick conviction, but the list of missing secrets grows
Witnesses and Revelations
Once again, the Administration is beset by contra controversy
Over Hill, over Dale...
Tomorrow's weapons are being designed today
Teaching What He Practiced (The Presidency)
Disarming Tiff
Moscow's propaganda edge
Visions of Lecture Lucre
Orators assemble in Washington to hear and be heard
SCIENCE
A shuttle mission that began in near disaster ends in triumph
PRESS
Soldier of Fortune, ten years old, wants only the macho
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
"This Could Be Ground Zero"
Throngs recall the Bomb
Gunning for Sergeant York
American Notes
Bishop Tutu's Hopes and Fears
Despite anger and repression, he continues to see goodwill
World Notes
Shattered Hopes for Synfuels
A flagship energy project is threatened with a shutdown
Business Notes
People
Getting Even Without Winning (Newswatch)
Air Inapparent
Seeking antique atmosphere
Upbeats
OPERA AND IDEAS: FROM MOZART TO STRAUSS
Milestones
Bookends
WORLD
As the violence worsens, Botha appears to be considering reforms
A Burial with Dignity
"People Were Crying and Bleeding" (West Germany)
Two Americans die in a car-bomb attack on a U.S. air base
Empty Chairs (Middle East)
Syria boycotts an Arab summit
Uncovering a French Connection (France)
A secret service is accused of terrorist activities
The World's Largest City (China)
Chongqing sees sweeping change and novel experiments
Test of Wills (Pakistan)
Another Bhutto troubles Zia
Off the Air (Britain)
BBC journalists go on strike
BUSINESS
Spurned by CBS, the cable-TV pioneer adds MGM to his empire
Closing In (Economy & Business)
Carl Icahn encircles TWA
Washday Blues
Profits in a spin at P & G
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Skin cancer afflicts some 500,000 Americans each year
No-Win Situation
Just the Facts
Networks reject a TV spot
Girth Control (Medicine)
Debate over age and weight
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
In Santa Fe, eclecticism marks two new operas
Images of a Dark Century (Photography)
A master photojournalist is celebrated in Texas
Rising Sun and Shady Nights (Books)
PICTURES FROM THE WATER TRADE by John David Morley
Such Fun Singing the Blahs (Cinema)
Three caustic new films help revive the British cinema
Guess Who Flunked the IQ Test? (Cinema)
A new teenpic is smarter than Cimino's Dragon screed