Vol. 128 No. 18

American Notes California
Welfare on Plastic

American Notes Demonstrations
Stepping Lively

American Notes Highways
Taming the Truckers

American Notes Tax
Reform Hancock John

American Notes Tennessee
Thou Shalt Not Teach

Bang! Bang! You're Out!
Washington and Moscow fight a war of diplomatic attrition

Campaign Windup Fight to the Finish
The struggle for the Senate gets closer and meaner

Combat Zone
Pat Robertson sues for libel

Legal Eagles
A newly minted coin takes off

Prepping for a Covert Overt War
As Hasenfus stands trial, the CIA resumes open aid to the contras

The Presidency
A Republic's Palace

China Encounter of Long-Lost Comrades
Honecker is welcomed in Peking as Communist relations warm

Exiles Unwelcome Homecoming

France
New Offense, Old Complaint

Haiti
A Whisper for Democracy

Hong Kong
On the Road to Goodbye

Lebanon
Luck Runs Out for a Poet

Life After the Americans Leave

Mozambique Anger Over a Plane Crash
A leader's death adds more instability to a country on its knees

South Africa Pullout Parade
Bowing to pressure, more and more U.S. firms withdraw

Terrorism Making the Syrian Connection
After a conviction, Western countries take diplomatic reprisals

What Is Destroying the Ozone?
Man-made chemicals may be partly to blame

Small Delights and a Big Chill
Now if baseball only allowed a little sunshine and sleep

Handsome and Homemade (Design)
The American Craft Museum opens with a provocative show

From Programs to Pajama Parties (Computers)
Educators push to prepare schoolgirls for a computerized society

A Disturbing New Deficit (Economy & Business)
The U.S. imports more high-tech goods than it sells abroad

Economy on the Move Again (Economy & Business)

How's That Again? (Economy & Business)

Is the Middle Class Shrinking? (Economy & Business)
Experts debate the impact of job-market upheavals on income distribution

Music a Record Born to Run (Economy & Business)

Opec (Economy & Business)
An Early- Morning Truce

Sinking in a Sea of Bad Loans (Economy & Business)
As thrift institutions fail, their insurance fund is running low

Television (Economy & Business)
Mickey Mouse in Mandarin

The Pros Who Play the Name Game (Economy & Business)
Business is brisk for corporate-identity consultants

Supreme Or Not Supreme
That is the question, says the Attorney General

A Thumb in the Public Eye His Way: (Books)
The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra by Kitty Kelley; Bantam; 575 pages; $21.95

Bookends Word for Word (Books)
by Andrew A. Rooney Putnam; 287 pages; $14.95

Clinging to the Ideals of Youth the Common Pursuit by Simon Gray (Theater)

Flamenco, Simple and Smashing (Dance)
The creators of TANGO ARGENTINO give Broadway another hit

Moral Bite Going Solo (Books)
by Roald Dahl Farrar, Straus & Giroux 208 pages; $14.95

The Evangelist of Kitsch (Show Business)
Liberace: The Show, the Book, the Legend

The Late Nightlife Tonight Show (Video)
A host of newcomers do battle in the kingdom of Carson

Weird Trios and Fun Couples (Cinema)
Four new films have mayhem on their minds