Vol. 127 No. 23

NATION

"Salt Ii Is Finito"
Reagan threatens to end compliance with the unratified treaty

American Notes Alaska
Out of the Past into the Future

American Notes Culture
Weeding Orwell's Farm

American Notes Fbi
Standing By Their Man

American Notes Lobbying
Delving into Deaver's Deals

American Notes Luxury
The High Cost of Leaving

"We Have to Be in Space"

Fixing NASA
As a tough report on CHALLENGER is readied, the U.S. debates its space future

Star Wars' Heavy Load

Honoring the Loyalists

Larouche's Tangled Web
Campaigning and snooping

Michigan's Holy Confusion
Robertson scores, but Bush leads in a new national poll

Seeking Political Protection
Trade becomes a hot issue in Congress and on the trail

Spilling Some Very Big Beans
Ronald Pelton's trial brings intelligence secrets to light

WORLD

Africa How Do You Spell Relief?
A U.N. Session Offers Few Solutions to Problems of Debt, Growth and Hunger

Austria the End of an Electoral Agony
Waldheim expects victory after a bitter presidential campaign

Central America All for One
Vows of CONTRA unity

Colombia Dry and Mighty
Barco wins in a landslide

Dissidents Homeward Bound, Reluctantly
At the end of her stay in the U.S., Bonner faces an uncertain future

East Germany Settling Scores
New ploy to alter an old accord

Israel Struggle At the Top
Peres moves to stop an inquiry

South Africa "We Cannot Be Held to Ransom"
Foreign Minister Botha defiantly defends a controversial policy

Soviet Union Rock 'N' Roll, Mounting Toll
More echoes from Chernobyl

World Notes Argentina
And Now, a Squid War

World Notes Barbados
Big Win for a U.S. Critic

World Notes Canada
Attack in a Distant Land

World Notes France
The Helicopter Caper

World Notes Kampuchea
Sealing Off a Border?

SCIENCE

Dealing with Threats From Space
Could a meteor start a nuclear war?

SOCIETY

In Mississippi: Visiting Around (American Scene)

PRESS

Newswatch
Getting Back At the Press

SPORT

A 16th Flag in Sight
The Boston Celtics' monopoly reaches to the rafters

TECHNOLOGY

Letting 1,000 Flowers Bloom (Computers)
The Connection Machine takes a novel approach to computing

BUSINESS

Business Notes Investigations (Economy & Business)
A Tainted Stock Play

Business Notes Investments (Economy & Business)
The Liberty- Coin Craze

Business Notes Products (Economy & Business)
Coating of Many Colors

Business Notes Weapons (Economy & Business)
Hey, Get Your Tommy Guns

Paper News ; (Economy & Business)
Sale and sunset in Baltimore

The Price Was Finally Right (Economy & Business)
After a long holdout, Sperry accepts Burroughs' merger bid

Turning Away From (Economy & Business)
Dirigisme Under a new regime, France discovers the joys of freer markets

Wall Street's Merry-Go-Round (Economy & Business)
Investors take a dizzying ride through the record books

EDUCATION

A Few Words Before Going Forth
Wisdom, humor and plenty of advice for the class of '86

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Voice in the Wilderness Murrow: His Life and Times by A.M. Sperber; Freundlich; 795 pages; $22.95 (Books)

Ballpark Figures the Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract Villard; 721 Pages; $24.95 the Bill James Baseball Abstract 1986 (Books)
Ballantine; 340 Pages; $8.95

Invaders From Waukesha (Music)
They're new! They're fine! They're from Wisconsin!

On the Road Vagabond (Cinema)
Directed and Written by Agnes Varda

Really Rosie Monkeys (Books)
by Susan Minot Dutton/Lawrence; 159 pages; $15.95

The Tintoretto of the Peons (Art)
In Philadelphia, a long-awaited show of Diego Rivera

Upticks on the Atomic Clock the Manhattan Project (Cinema)
Directed by Marshall Brickman Screenplay by Marshall Brickman and Thomas Baum

PEOPLE

People

TO OUR READERS

A Letter From the Publisher (Publisher's Letter)

ESSAY

How Paradise Is Lost--and Found