Vol. 131 No. 1

American Notes CONGRESS
A Massive Mouse

American Notes CRIME
Squeaky's Christmas Hike

American Notes IRANSCAM
Begging His Pardon

American Notes LABOR
Don We Now Our. . .

Campaign Portrait
Standing Up For Substance With little to lose, Babbitt dares to be bold

Gray Power!
AARP emerges as the nation's most powerful special-interest lobby

Manslaughter, Not Murder Black and white, and gray

Of Meese and Men
New Wedtech charges could singe the Attorney General

Middle East State Of Siege
Israel escalates its crackdown

Nicaragua Battles of Bullets and Dollars
The rebels score victories on and off the field

South Korea Guilt Trips
The Kims apologize, sort of

The Philippines Off Mindoro, a Night to Remember
A ferry and a tanker collide in a titanic disaster

World Notes BRITAIN
A Blast from The Crown

World Notes HAITI
Fake Coffins And Real Ones

World Notes SOVIET UNION
Switching Teams in Space

World Notes WEST GERMANY
The Moderator Gets the Boot

World Notes ZIMBABWE
Comrades Once Again

It's A Boy, and Here's Why
Researchers pinpoint a gene that may determine sex

The Year of Dining Dangerously (Food)
A nervous market, shaky trends, bizarre solutions

Best of '87

Last Goodbye to Glory
Veteran ballplayers face up to retirement in the new year

Echoes of The Past, Visions for the Present (Design)
From skyscrapers to bed linens, the year's finest work refines and adapts tradition

Time Magazine Contents Page January 4, 1988 (Contents)
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Magazine masthead JANUARY 4, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 1

Business Notes AUTOS (Economy & Business)
Porsche Comes To Shove

Business Notes BANKRUPTCY (Economy & Business)
Chapter 11 for Teddy Ruxpin

Business Notes COMPUTERS (Economy & Business)
Big Blue Soups Up

Business Notes SCENTS (Economy & Business)
Oh, to Be Too Tony for Liz!

Business Notes SOUTH AFRICA (Economy & Business)
More Pressure To Pull Out

Up, Up, then Doooown (Economy & Business)
For the No. 1 money manager, the year of the crash was a scary roller coaster

A Celebrant of Mixed Motives OSCAR WILDE (Books)
by Richard Ellmann; Knopf; 630 pages; $24.95

Best of '87 (Video)

Best of '87 (Theater)

Best of '87 (Books)

Best of '87 (Music)

Best of '87 (Cinema)

Growlings He Got Hungry and Forgot His Manners (Books)
by Jimmy Breslin Ticknor & Fields; 275 pages; $17.95

Huston's Serene Farewell THE DEAD (Cinema)
Directed by John Huston; Screenplay by Tony Huston

Marimba Man Leigh Stevens' lonely calling (Music)

Most of '87 (Show Business)

Scraping Away the Sentiment OUR TOWN (Theater)
by Thornton Wilder

Tall Tales from Tinseltown (Show Business)
A new anthology burnishes old movie legends

The Pit Bull of Talk-Show Hosts (Video)
Morton Downey Jr. tells off his guests -- and his audience

"The Roughest Year" (Man Of The Year)
Scandal, war, crash, plague . . . and who's in charge?

((Mikhail Gorbachev in cyrillic characters)) (Man Of The Year)

The Education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Man Of The Year)
An intimate biography of the private man

The Rise and Rise of Raisa (Man Of The Year)
A different kind of wife

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