NATION
Don't Eat The Daisies (American Notes)
Don't Eat The Daisies
In Sickness And in Stealth (American Notes)
In Sickness And in Stealth
Sauce For The Gander: (American Notes)
The National Debt At $39.95: (American Notes)
And Now, the Omaha Oscars
Campaign Issues Trade: Getting Back into the Game
Fighting For Water in the Colonias (American Ideas)
A Texas nun teaches Mexican Americans the uses of Chicago-style political activism
How It Plays In Toledo
The debate and the campaign as seen through the eyes of a key Rustbelt city
Ninety Long Minutes in Omaha
The overprogrammed Quayle was a poor match for Bentsen
Racism in The Raw In Suburban Chicago
Two harrowing tales show how brutal bias can still be
The Presidency: Dumb Question, Worse Answer
Dumb Question, Worse Answer
The Votes That Really Count
WORLD
Angola Where Blossoms And Bullets Grow
The foreigners may leave soon, but a civil war remains
Britain Man in the Middle
Labor's leader eases his line
Chile Fall of the Patriarch
Pinochet loses at the polls, but democracy is not the victor yet
Japan Dress Them In Mourning
As Hirohito's health declines, the mood turns somber
South Africa The Front Line Begins to Wobble
Botha travels the continent to breach black hostility
Soviet Union Perestroika Hits the KGB
Gorbachev attempts to bend the third pillar
Terrorism Many Rumors, One Release
Will more hostages be freed?
A Record for Repression (World Notes)
A Record for Repression
Progress Round The Clock (World Notes)
Progress Round The Clock
Serbs 15 Politburo 0 (World Notes)
Serbs 15 Politburo 0
The Battle Of Algiers (World Notes)
The Battle Of Algiers
SCIENCE
Environment: Big Trouble at Savannah River (Environment)
Probes of a nuclear plant reveal safety flaws and near accidents
PRESS
Press: The Power at the Kingdom
A harsh new biography looks at ex-Times editor A.M. Rosenthal
Press: Three-Piece Suit
Design changes at the Journal
RELIGION
Religion: Tuesday, The Rabbi Bought PTL
An odd new ownership for the moribund evangelistic empire
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Critics' Choice: Oct. 17, 1988
Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Magazine contents page Vol. 132 No. 16 OCTOBER 17, 1988
Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Magazine masthead Vol. 132 No. 16 OCTOBER 17, 1988
BUSINESS
A Ragtop for The Long Haul
A Ragtop for The Long Haul
Recipe for A Takeover
Recipe for A Takeover
Trim a Little Off the Top
Trim a Little Off the Top
Unlikely Copilots
Unlikely Copilots
We Really Must Insist
We Really Must Insist
Special Report: One Year Later It Was the Best of Times . . .
The crash has made winners of raiders, investigators and con men
The Crash, One Year Later : It Was the Worst of Times
The losers include fallen gurus, battered brokers and rich dropouts
Special Report: The Crash, One Year Later
A Financial House of Cards
EDUCATION
Education: Balancing Minds and Souls
How Catholic should Catholic colleges be?
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Music: A Beat Box with Four Octaves (Music)
Singer Bobby McFerrin breaks big and gets happy -- very happy
Books: A Flawed Hero in a Flawed War (Books)
Books: Atavistic Gondolas (Books)
Video: The Big Boys' Blues (Video)
Challenged by cable, VCRs and an audience eager to zap, the networks face the most troubled fall in their history
Cinema: Knockdown Duel (Cinema)
Cinema: Other Voices, Other Rooms (Cinema)
Art: Seeing Degas As Never Before (Art)
A superb retrospective of the great French realist opens in New York City
Video: The New Season: Boomers and Humors (Video)
Books: Wise Guy (Books)
SPECIAL SECTION
Travel: The Smiling Lures Of Thailand (Travel)
A hot holiday spot offers exoticism and bargains
PEOPLE
Interview with Alan Bloom: A Most Uncommon Scold: (Interview)
Western civilization, sees "a new kind of thought control" at work.