NATION
Congress: Tasting His Own Medicine (American Notes)
Tasting His Own Medicine
Railroads: Questions From a Wreck (American Notes)
Questions From a Wreck
Texas: Real Men Don't Litter (American Notes)
Real Men Don't Litter
Vermont: End of an Affair (American Notes)
End of an Affair
Drug Withdrawal
It was a very short crusade
Images Of Glory
Glory
Iranscam's Fallout
Fallout
Mixed Blessing
A Senate report provides a damning vindication for Reagan
Retraining: Reagan's competitiveness plan
Reagan's competitiveness plan
Rushing to An Early Kickoff
The '88 campaign, the most wide open in decades, is under way
That Old, Rugged Cross
A new book details the FBI's harassment of Martin Luther King
The Pentagon's Flying Edsel
Even at $283 million a plane, the B-1B bomber has problems
The Presidency: If He Would Just Get Interested
If He Would Just Get Interested
Welfare-Plus In Washington
Bonuses for the working poor
WORLD
Afghanistan Messengers from Moscow
Two top Soviet officials visit Kabul to endorse a peace proposal
Britain: Still Going Strong at 133
Still Going Strong at 133
Chad: War by Proxy in the Dunes
War by Proxy in the Dunes French air attacks hit back at Libyan forces
China: There's a Dragon Out There
There's a Dragon Out There Demonstrations cool as Peking hardens its stand against dissent
Businessman Adnan Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm (Cover Story)
Free-wheeling and free-spending, he flits between deals and a dozen homes
The Murky World of Weapons Dealers (Cover Story)
How arms traders bartered with U.S. policy
Dirty Dollars
A general scrubs up his image
Eastern Europe Shooting Up Under a Red Star
From Moscow to Prague, drug abuse comes out into the open
El Salvador: Headaches for The Chief
Headaches for The Chief
France Liberte, Egalite, Chaos
Chirac faces Italian-style unrest and protest
Lebanon: Warlord with Nine Lives
Warlord with Nine Lives
Macao: Squabble over A Magic Date
Squabble over A Magic Date
Nicaragua: Now You See It, Now . . .
Now You See It, Now . . .
South Africa Stiff Challenge, Swift Reaction
Stiff Challenge, Swift Reaction The A.N.C. changes tactics, and the government slaps the press
The KGB Gets Spanked
Gets Spanked
The Philippines I Know You Still Love Me
As Aquino braces for a plebiscite, the rebels are restless
SCIENCE
Science: Arcs,Birth and a Disk in the Sky
Some faraway surprises from an astronomy meeting
SOCIETY
Living: Rock Power for Health and Wealth (Living)
Believers and collectors find new uses for crystals
Ethics: Whose Child Is This? (Ethics)
Baby M. and the agonizing dilemma of surrogate motherhood
RELIGION
Religion: Israel's New Conversion Crisis
Questions about Jewish identity are raised by a U.S. emigrant's case
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Contents page January 19, 1987 Vol.129 No. 3
Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Magazine Masthead JANUARY 19, 1987 Vol. 129, No. 3
BUSINESS
AUTOS: Imports Are On a Roll (Economy & Business)
Imports Are On a Roll
BANKING: A Jolly Good Agreement (Economy & Business)
A Jolly Good Agreement
MOVIES: Cannon Runs Low on Ammo (Economy & Business)
Cannon Runs Low on Ammo
PRODUCTS: Let Sleeping Plants Lie (Economy & Business)
Let Sleeping Plants Lie
SCANDALS: Officer! Stop That Man (Economy & Business)
Officer! Stop That Man
London Calling, on a Beam of Light (Economy & Business)
Undersea fiber-optic cables will bring continents closer together
The Bull Tops 2000 (Economy & Business)
A surging Dow finally clears a historic stock-market hurdle
The Way We Were at 1000 (Economy & Business)
Way We Were at 1000
Uneasy Alliance: Defections hit a computer team (Economy & Business)
Defections hit a computer team
Waterloo At USX: Carl Icahn meets his match (Economy & Business)
Carl Icahn meets his match
EDUCATION
Education: Better Grades for Bill Bennett
The feisty Secretary is converting some of his critics
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Cinema: A Little Sex, a Little Death (Cinema)
Little Sex, a Little Death Cops and fops, passion and repression in four foreign films
Theater: Soviet Exile's Blazing Debut (Theater)
Soviet Exile's Blazing Debut Yuri Lyubimov stages Crime and Punishment in Washington
Theater: Double Profile SWEET SUE (Theater)
Profile SWEET SUE by A.R. Gurney Jr.
Books: The Varnished Truths of Philip Roth (Books)
His challenging new novel plays make-believe with reality