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COVER: After 20 years, the apocalyptic events of 1968 are still reverberating
Like a knife blade, the year of riot and revolution severed the U. S. from its triumphant optimism, exposing a confused, divided country that was fighting a war it could not win. The dramas of 1968 shaped the world we know today: heroes were gunned down, the Soviets trampled Prague' s spring, Richard Nixon was elected, and man for the first time orbited the moon. See NATION.
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WORLD: Israel counters a wave of Arab violence with trials and a troop buildup
Following some of the worst rioting in its occupied territories in 20 years, the army dispenses quick justice in military courts and beefs up its patrols. -- Gulf nations meet to coordinate defense in the widening tanker war. -- Soviet and Afghan troops mount a desperate effort to save the strategic town of Khost from a rebel siege. -- Northern Ireland ends another year of sectarian strife.
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BUSINESS: Profits ahoy ! The cruise- line industry is growing at flank speed again
The ocean liner, no longer just a luxury conveyance, has evolved into a floating amusement park, health spa and classroom. Roughly 1.5 million North Americans took cruises in 1982; by 1987 that figure had doubled. -- Financial markets gyrate as anxieties over the economy rise. -- Suitors press $3 billion bids on a bankrupt drug company. -- Outlawing a three- wheeler.
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Nation
Citing a dangerous Soviet edge, the U. S. resumes production of nerve- gas weapons. -- Congress expands the 65- m. p. h. limit.
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Technology
Glasnost is nice, but it takes a vast network of satellites, ground stations and seismic detectors to make the world safe for arms control.
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Health & Fitness
Get the winter blahs (or summer blues) every year? You may suffer from seasonal affective disorder, appropriately known as SAD.
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Music
Beset by crises, U. S. orchestras and opera companies face a major challenge: how to keep their art fresh, vital and alive.
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Religion
After a 40- year ban on new churches, Poland bursts with what may be the world' s biggest Christian ecclesiastical building boom.
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Law
Texas reformers fight the cozy practice of judges getting campaign funds from lawyers. -- The people' s judge writes a book.
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Cinema
In a boom season for laughs, moviegoers queue up to see 3 Men and a Baby and the New Year' s brightest comedy, Moonstruck.
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Profile
Meet an amiable whale named John Madden, who mints money with his wham- bam football commentary and a slew of TV commercials.
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Cover: Photograph of U. S. soldiers in Viet Nam by AP, Janis Joplin by David Gahr, Coretta King by Bob Fitch -- Black Star, and Robert Kennedy by Steve Schapiro -- Black Star