Vol. 129 No. 2
NATION
Nearly 100 perish in a suspicious inferno at a San Juan hotel
American Notes DRUNK DRIVING
Leaving the Scene
American Notes LOS ANGELES
Testing the Waters
American Notes SPACE
Out of Court Settlement
American Notes WEATHER
A Rare Cosmic Dance
Cover Story "Be Careful Out There"
As air traffic soars, so does concern about safety in the skies
Flying with TCAS II
Kind Words for Continental
Let Us Entertain You
The competition is on to bag the 1988 conventions
Plutonium
Blues in Hanford An aging reactor closes temporarily, but the debate heats up
The Last Battles
Hobbled by Iran, Reagan struggles to reassert his leadership
The Presidency
Gulliver's Travails
WORLD
A Leader for the Last Days of Empire Harold Macmillan: 1894-1986
China
More Wintry Days of Discontent Defying an official ban, students mount new protests in Peking
Iran
Meantime, Back in Tehran / As the U.S. crisis simmers, Khomeini's successors jostle each other for advantage
South Africa
New Rules for Black Schools Pretoria issues tough regulations aimed at crushing dissent
Soviet Union
The Long Hard Road to Moscow After life in the West, 50 disgruntled emigres go home again
T Shirts That Shout
World Notes AFGHANISTAN
Let's Make Another Deal
World Notes FRANCE
Going off The Tracks
World Notes ISRAEL
A Deep Sigh Of Relief
World Notes Japan
The 1.004% Solution
World Notes WEST GERMANY
Play It Again, Mr. Chancellor
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Surgery raises hopes -- and issues
Rough Rides (Health & Fitness)
ATV injuries climb
The "Weight Shrinks" (Health & Fitness)
Dig In Help for serious or just trendy eating problems
SOCIETY
A new study shows that key characteristics may be inherited
In (American Scene)
New York City: An Incantation
RELIGION
Moscow worries about the growing population of Soviet Muslims
SPORT
In the "get even" game, Paterno and Penn State do
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Magazine Masthead JANUARY 12, 1987 Vol. 129, No. 2
BUSINESS
The U.S. uses brinkmanship to handle a trade dispute
And Now, Son of Tax Reform (Economy & Business)
Changes in federal law portend higher state levies in 1987
Business Notes ADVERTISING (Economy & Business)
Ansel Adams, Arms Peddler?
Business Notes FINANCE (Economy & Business)
Beach-Blanket Bank Tellers
Business Notes LAWSUITS (Economy & Business)
Fees, Fie! Foes Fume
Business Notes SERVICES (Economy & Business)
Storefront Post Offices
Business Notes TRANSPORTATION (Economy & Business)
I Left My Car in San Francisco
Hospitals (Economy & Business)
Learn the Hard Sell Feverish competition brings hype to the health-care industry
Pie in The Sky (Economy & Business)
The White House and Congress battle to cut a trillion dollar budget
EDUCATION
With tenure logjammed, colleges turn to part-time faculty
LAW
A dark tale of mass murder gets even murkier
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Art Form At 20, the American Repertory still baffles and delights
Getting On the Map (Art)
New money fuels Los Angeles' museum surge
Life (Books)
Studies BLUEBEARD'S EGG AND OTHER STORIES by Margaret Atwood Houghton Mifflin; 281 pages; $16.95
Octopus the Second Oldest Profession (Books)
by Phillip Knightley Norton; 436 pages; $19.95
Pyramid (Art)
Power in Paint
Tough (Books)
Talk and Local Color Bandits by Elmore Leonard; Arbor House; 345 pages; $17.95
View From Prospero's Island (Show Business)
Merchant and Ivory are as hot as tez tamatar shorba
TO OUR READERS
LETTERS
ESSAY
I'm Shocked, Shocked!