NATION Playing for the Future (COVER STORY) How the Defense Budget Crashed Freeze No, Deployment Yes Who's in Charge Here? Arguing About Means and Ends A Sorry Record Furious Volley in a No-Win Match Rigged for a Collision Course Deluge in the Deep South Mondale: I Am Ready Now WORLD The Mysterious Nut Case Espionage: Crackdown on Spies (Espionage) Socialists: Never at a Loss for Words (Socialists) Soviet Union: Freedom Flight (Soviet Union) Kampuchea: The Deadly Rite of Spring (Kampuchea) Brazil: Blowup (Brazil) Peru: Bloody Sunday (Peru) Persian Gulf: A Glut That Is All Too Visible (Persian Gulf) Middle East: Seeking Safety in Numbers (Middle East) Ailing Schoolgirls South Africa: Black Spots (South Africa) Nigeria: A Vigorous but Fragile Democracy (Nigeria) SCIENCE Space: Thin Wire Away From Eternity (Space) Environment: New Day of the Condors (Environment) SOCIETY In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows (American Scene) Behavior: Turning Illness into a Way of Life (Behavior) Living: Thoroughly American Julia (Living) PRESS Press: Hooking Up to Cable Households SPORT Sport: It's Always Too Soon to Quit BUSINESS Coming Up with Dry Holes (Economy & Business) Service-Station Slugfest (Economy & Business) Getting PIK-ed to Pieces:Federal Payment-in-Kind Program (Economy & Business) Mickey Mouse on Tokyo Bay (Economy & Business) EDUCATION Education: Washington Should Lead the Way ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Books: The Impish Iconoclast at 60 (Books) Books: And Now, the Book (Books) Music: It Ain't Necessarily So (Music) Art: Misunderstood Master of Iron (Art) Cinema: Scheming Under the Spires (Cinema) Cinema: Trading Up (Cinema) Theater: Loony Bin (Theater) Theater: Mad House (Theater) MILESTONES Milestones: Apr. 18, 1983 PEOPLE People: Apr. 18, 1983 TO OUR READERS A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 18, 1983 (A Letter From The Publisher) LETTERS Letters: Apr. 18, 1983 ESSAY Essay: The Male Response to Rape