NATION Closing In on the Prize An Opening to the Middle Kingdom A Threat to the Future: Black Families in the Urban Ghetto Mystery Flight over Nevada Still No Peace Stinging Rebuke An Olympic Ideal Gets Burned The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Unadorned, but Proud (The Presidency/Hugh Sidey) Ah, Wilderness Miss Liberty's Make-Over WORLD Nicaragua: Gloom but Not Yet Doom (Nicaragua) Fighting the Rabid Dogs El Salvador: Taking Sides? (El Salvador) Poland: Marching out of Step (Poland) Lebanon: No Picnic All Around (Lebanon) Libya: Havoc at Home, Too, for Gaddafi (Libya) Britain: Murder Clues (Britain) Ireland: Forum Fizzle (Ireland) SCIENCE Aftermath of a Nuclear Spill (Environment) SOCIETY In Washington: Missionary (American Scene) PRESS Press: An Absence of Malice Press: Bad Show RELIGION Religion: Papal Nod to a Christian Boom SPORT Sport: Swale on the Rail for the Roses TECHNOLOGY Computers: Cracking Down (Computers) Computers: X-Rated (Computers) BUSINESS The Superstars of Merger (Economy & Business) Early Warning (Economy & Business) Portrait of a Federal Fiasco (Economy & Business) Mining China (Economy & Business) Testing and Protesting (Economy & Business) A Move to Ease Death's Sting (Economy & Business) Double Play (Economy & Business) ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Best Year Of Her Lives (Show Business / COVER STORY) Show Business: The Other Star in the Family (Show Business) Theater: Sondheim Connects the Dots (Theater) Theater: Anguished Aria (Theater) Art: Revelation on 53rd Street (Art) Books: The Naysayer to Nihilism (Books) Books: Triangle (Books) Books: Survivors (Books) Cinema: Swinging for the Fences (Cinema) MILESTONES Milestones: May 14, 1984 PEOPLE People: May 14, 1984 TO OUR READERS A Letter From The Publisher: May 14, 1984 (A Letter From The Publisher) LETTERS Letters: May 14, 1984 ESSAY Essay: The Appeal of Ordeal
Cover Credit: GORDON MUNRO
Cover Credit: GORDON MUNRO