Time Magazine Contents Page February 23, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 8

Vol. 129 No. 8

COVER: The wild animals of Africa: now 34

you see them; soon, perhaps, you won' t

East Africa, where the wild things are, is an earthly paradise, a dream kingdom where the actual and the psychic coincide. It is also a killing field. Kenya, infested by poachers and suffering the highest rate of population growth in the world, has become a proving ground for extinction. Can the wild animals survive? And if they vanish, what exactly will have been lost? See ESSAY.

NATION: The Government joins more than 22

40 states in a crusade to restrict smoking

In the most sweeping...

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