NATION
Not an Easy Disease to Come By
For all its ferocity, AIDS is relatively hard to get
Arms Control: Lacking the Right Chemistry (American Notes)
Lacking the Right Chemistry
Crime: Unrepentant About Murder (American Notes)
Unrepentant About Murder
Drugs: A Smuggler's Hard Landing (American Notes)
A Smuggler's Hard Landing
Elections: No One Catches Koch (American Notes)
No One Catches Koch
Justice: Who Killed John Belushi? (American Notes)
Who Killed John Belushi?
Harvest Song: Willie Nelson plans a benefit
Willie plans a benefit
Order in Court
Neo-Nazis go on trial
Swans and Ugly Ducklings
The New Untouchables
Anxiety over AIDS is verging on hysteria in some parts of the country
Toning Up the Nuclear Triad
How each leg of America's strategic deterrent really works
Trying to Cut His Losses
Reagan moves to outflank Congress on two charged issues
Zap! Then a Flap: A satellite shooter scores a hit
A satellite shooter scores a hit
WORLD
Britain Big Blow to the KGB
The top Soviet spy master in London defects to the West
Britain Looting Spree
A riot scars Birmingham
A Successor Generation
Flourishing Collectives
The Second Revolution
Deng's reforms are taking China on a courageous if uncharted course
Thailand Power Grab: A coup attempt fizzles
A coup attempt fizzles
South Africa: Cracks in the System
Argentina: The Generals in the Dock (World Notes)
The Generals in the Dock
El Salvador: Missing: Duarte's Daughter (World Notes)
Missing: Duarte's Daughter
Honduras: Striking At the Sandinistas (World Notes)
Striking At the Sandinistas
Portugal Fiery Collision (World Notes)
Portugal Fiery Collision
Soviet Union: A Poem for the Party (World Notes)
A Poem for the Party
SCIENCE
Science: Haunting Images of Disaster
Titanic's Discoverer Reveals Dramatic Pictures of the Sunken Ship
Space: The Upstaging of Halley's Armada (Space)
A U.S. Spacecraft Makes the First Encounter with a Comet
HEALTH & MEDICINE
After Cancer: A drug to prevent recurrence (Medicine)
A drug to prevent recurrence
Medicine: Viral Map: First step to a cure for colds (Medicine)
First step to a cure for colds
SOCIETY
In Utica: the Dogpatch of Baseball (American Scene)
PRESS
Press: A Video Chronicle of Our Times
45/85 Looks At the Past 40 Years
RELIGION
Religion: Opting for the Browning Version
The Episcopal Church picks an activist liberal as its leader
Religion: Roman Column
John Paul, journalist
SPORT
Sport: But in Barrooms, the Debate Goes On
Sport: For Pete's Sake, He Cried
Rose confirms Cobb's place in heaven and his own on earth
Sport: The Cocaine Agonies Continue
Charges of illegal drug use touch even some baseball greats
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time Magazine Contents Page September 23, 1985 Vol. 126 No. 12 (Contents)
BUSINESS
A Red Star Rises on the High Seas (Economy & Business)
Soviet merchant ships are undercutting world markets
Defense: Peeking At Pentagon Papers (Economy & Business / Business Notes)
Peeking At Pentagon Papers
Entertainment: Male Rabbits Join the Bunnies (Economy & Business / Business Notes)
Male Rabbits Join the Bunnies
Lodging: Motel By the Minute (Economy & Business / Business Notes)
Motel By the Minute
Marketing: A Flat Year for Coke (Economy & Business / Business Notes)
A Flat Year for Coke
Real Estate: The Rockefellers Cash In (Economy & Business / Business Notes)
The Rockefellers Cash In
Dancing to a Foreign Tune Time's (Economy & Business)
Board of Economists says events abroad will determine U.S. growth
Gucci Suits: A famous name in court (Economy & Business)
A famous name in court
Stream Doctor: Trout love his landscapes (Economy & Business)
Trout love his landscapes
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Cinema: Crimebuster Compromising Positions (Cinema)
Directed by Frank Perry Screenplay by Susan Isaacs
Books: Experiment in Black and White Common Ground: a Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Books)
in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas; Knopf; 659 pages; $19.95
Books: Haunted Peace a Stillness Heard Round the World (Books)
by Stanley Weintraub Dutton; 468 pages; $22.50
Cinema: Mean Streets in Nighttown After Hours (Cinema)
Directed by Martin Scorsese; Screenplay by Joseph Minion
Video: Old Habits, New Formats (Video)
Anthology shows come back as the networks gear up for fall
Books: Spectacles Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino (Books)
by Italo Calvino Translated by William Weaver Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 130 pages; $12.95