NATION
Congress: A Massive Mouse (American Notes)
A Massive Mouse
Crime: Squeaky's Christmas Hike (American Notes)
Squeaky's Christmas Hike
Iranscam: Begging His Pardon (American Notes)
Begging His Pardon
Labor: Don We Now Our. . . (American Notes)
Don We Now Our. . .
Campaign Portrait, Bruce Babbitt: Standing Up For Substance
Standing Up For Substance With little to lose, Babbitt dares to be bold
AARP's 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
WORLD
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
Britain: A Blast from The Crown (World Notes)
A Blast from The Crown
Haiti: Fake Coffins And Real Ones (World Notes)
Fake Coffins And Real Ones
Soviet Union: Switching Teams in Space (World Notes)
Switching Teams in Space
West Germany: The Moderator Gets the Boot (World Notes)
The Moderator Gets the Boot
Zimbabwe: Comrades Once Again (World Notes)
Comrades Once Again
SCIENCE
Science: It's A Boy, and Here's Why
Researchers pinpoint a gene that may determine sex
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Food: The Year of Dining Dangerously (Food)
A nervous market, shaky trends, bizarre solutions
SPORT
Sport: Best of '87
Sport: Last Goodbye to Glory
Veteran ballplayers face up to retirement in the new year
STYLE & DESIGN
Design: Echoes of The Past, Visions for the Present (Design)
From skyscrapers to bed linens, the year's finest work refines and adapts tradition
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time Magazine Contents Page January 4, 1988 (Contents)
Vol. 131 No. 1
Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Magazine masthead JANUARY 4, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 1
BUSINESS
AUTOS: Porsche Comes To Shove (Economy & Business)
Porsche Comes To Shove
BANKRUPTCY: Chapter 11 for Teddy Ruxpin (Economy & Business)
Chapter 11 for Teddy Ruxpin
COMPUTERS: Big Blue Soups Up (Economy & Business)
Big Blue Soups Up
SCENTS: Oh, to Be Too Tony for Liz! (Economy & Business)
Oh, to Be Too Tony for Liz!
SOUTH AFRICA: More Pressure To Pull Out (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
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Books: A Celebrant of Mixed Motives OSCAR WILDE (Books)
by Richard Ellmann; Knopf; 630 pages; $24.95
Video: Best of '87: Video (Video)
Theater: Best of '87: Theater (Theater)
Books: Best of '87: Books (Books)
Music: Best of '87: Music (Music)
Cinema: Best of '87: Cinema (Cinema)
Books: Growlings He Got Hungry and Forgot His Manners (Books)
by Jimmy Breslin Ticknor & Fields; 275 pages; $17.95
Cinema: Huston's Serene Farewell THE DEAD (Cinema)
Directed by John Huston; Screenplay by Tony Huston
Music: Marimba Man Leigh Stevens' lonely calling (Music)
Show Business: Most of '87 (Show Business)
Theater: Scraping Away the Sentiment OUR TOWN (Theater)
by Thornton Wilder
Show Business: Tall Tales from Tinseltown (Show Business)
A new anthology burnishes old movie legends
Morton Downey Jr. The Pit Bull of Talk-Show Hosts (Video)
Morton Downey Jr. tells off his guests -- and his audience
SPECIAL SECTION
The Roughest Year (Man Of The Year)
Scandal, war, crash, plague . . . and who's in charge?
Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union (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 Gorbachev (Man Of The Year)
A different kind of wife