Vol. 130 No. 22

NATION

Advice From The Third Man
How Nixon mediated between Reagan and Gorbachev

American Notes DENVER
Prescription For Disaster

American Notes DRUGS
Cocaine's "Henry Ford"

American Notes NEW YORK
The Angel Of Death

American Notes POLITICS
Spy's Sassy Political Poll

American Notes WEST VIRGINIA
"Mad Dog" Takes a Plea

Campaign Portrait
Young Man In a Hurry Dick Gephardt chases a boyhood dream

Here Comes the Prosecutor
Now it is Walsh's turn

In Place of Giants and Ogres
Whatever Cuomo is doing, it sure looks like fun

The Presidency
The Speaker's Itch for Power

Troubled Times for Hizzoner
Mayor Ed Koch has lost his touch in turbulent New York City

Turkey And Trimmings
At the last moment, a half-baked deal is cut

WORLD

Britain Escalator to An Inferno
Panic and death in London's Underground

Kenya The Plot That Never Was
A mysterious memo stirs a furor in Nairobi

Middle East A Land That History Forgot
Ruled by Israel, Gaza becomes the refuge of the dispossessed

South Africa The "Graying" of a Nation
As more neighborhoods are integrated, a key apartheid law fades

Soviet Union Rehab Job
Yeltsin finds new employment

World Notes BRITAIN
The Jewel In the Garage

World Notes FRANCE
Mitterrand's Trial by Fire

World Notes SOVIET UNION
Now, a Word From Our Spy

World Notes THE PHILLIPINES
This Time a Coup for Cory

World Notes WAR CRIMES
Long Road To Justice

Yugoslavia Teetering on the Brink
The economy is sinking, and the regions are restless

SCIENCE

Making Fertilizer from What? (Environment)
A uranium processor's novel experiment starts a national furor

The Cactus Snatchers (Environment)

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Out in the Open (Medicine)
Changing attitudes and new research give fresh hope to alcoholics

Diary of A Drunk (Medicine)
What is it like to suffer from alcoholism? The writer of the following article, who spent 28 days in a treatment center in the Northeastern U.S., offers his reflections:

SOCIETY

A Separate Reality on I-95 (American Scene)

Season Of Autumn-Summer Love (Sexes)
More and more women find their ideal partner in a younger man

PRESS

Rethinking The Fair Game Rules
"A lot of respected journalistic guts are saying 'Whoa!' "

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Time Magazine Contents Page November 30, 1987 (Contents)
Vol. 130 No. 22

Time Magazine Masthead November 30, 1987 (Masthead)
Vol. 130 No. 22

BUSINESS

Born in the U.S.A., Sold to Japan (Economy & Business)
Sony pays $2 billion for pacesetting CBS Records

Business Notes AUTOS (Economy & Business)
Th-Th-That's All, Volks

Business Notes FINANCE (Economy & Business)
Letting Banks Run with Bulls

Business Notes HOUSING (Economy & Business)
Falling Through The Basement

Business Notes TAKEOVERS (Economy & Business)
Parking Ticket For Trump?

Business Notes TELEPHONES (Economy & Business)
Not as Good As It Sounds

Of Loose Lips and Stock Tips (Economy & Business)
Victory in the Winans case will help in snaring insider traders

Peso Panic (Economy & Business)
Mexico's currency plunges

The Technobandits (Economy & Business)
America struggles to stop leakage of its industrial secrets to the East

You Thought Monday Was Bad? (Economy & Business)
The day after the market crash was perhaps more dangerous

EDUCATION

Needy Kids, Perpetual Aid

Where Are All the Young Brains?
Gone to academe every one, claims a gadfly's new book

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

"The Half-Breed Rides Again" (Music)
Robbie Robertson returns -- at last -- with a new record

Blazing Exceptions to Nature (Art)
A huge London show evokes the world of medieval England

Down-Home Around the World (Books)
The season's new cookbooks dish up traditional comfort foods

Lovelorn, Headstrong (Cinema)

Worst-Case Scenario PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES Directed and Written by John Hughes (Cinema)

Zapping Back at Children's TV (Video)
After years of deregulation, kidvid's critics are on the attack

TO OUR READERS

A Letter From the Publisher (A Letter From The Publisher)