NATION
A Wry Clown Billy Carter, 1937-1988
California: Unclogging L.A.'s Arteries (American Notes)
Unclogging L.A.'s Arteries
New York: Tearing Apart Tawana's Tale (American Notes)
Tearing Apart Tawana's Tale
Niagara Falls Welcome Back To Love Canal: (American Notes)
The Gulf: Going to a Zone Defense (American Notes)
Going to a Zone Defense
Washington: The Patchwork Memorial (American Notes)
The Patchwork Memorial
Are You Better Off?
For much of the middle class, the answer is no -- yet it isn't hurting Bush
The Underclass: Breaking the Cycle (Campaign Issues)
The Underclass: Breaking the Cycle
Congeniality Wins
In a TIME poll, Dukakis takes the debate but Bush stays ahead
How One California Family Has Been Caught in the Middle
A tale of children who may never do as well as their parents
Spotlight on the A.C.L.U.
It defends Nazis and gays, Ollie North and Jehovah's Witnesses
The Presidency: It Takes Some Getting Used To
It Takes Some Getting Used To
The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid
Quayle His Task Is to Save Himself
The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid Bentsen
His Job Is to Capture Texas
WORLD
Communism Too Far, Too Fast?
Reform's price: a Moscow shake-up and a Beijing slowdown
Haiti The General vs. the Colonel
A new regime moves to crack down on the thriving drug trade
Middle East Plastic, but Deadly Palestinian casualties surge
Prizes Sorry, Ron And Mikhail
A Nobel for U.N. peacekeepers
Viet Nam The Wound That Will Not Heal
Why Washington and Hanoi refuse to let the MIA issue die
Winners And Losers
Middle East: Treacherous Shoreline (World Notes)
Treacherous Shoreline
Pakistan: Massacre in Hyderabad (World Notes)
Massacre in Hyderabad
POLAND No Olive Branch (World Notes)
POLAND No Olive Branch
Romance: Remembrance Of Loves Past (World Notes)
Remembrance Of Loves Past
Spain: Nailing Down The Bases (World Notes)
Nailing Down The Bases
SCIENCE
Space: America's Five Highflyers (Space)
The Magic Is Back! (Space)
On a thundering pillar of fire, Discovery carries the nation's hopes aloft again
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Medicine: After-The-Fact Birth Control (Medicine)
Birth Control Abortion pills, approved abroad, are doubtful for the U.S.
SOCIETY
Fashion: Geoffrey Beene's Amazing Grace (Fashion)
A new show pays tribute to an intrepid designer
In Texas: Going for the Bird (American Scene)
Behavior: Older Parents: Good for Kids? (Behavior)
Lateborns find fault, but there are advantages
STYLE & DESIGN
Design: America's Great Depot Gets Back on Track (Design)
Union Station in Washington is gloriously restored
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time Magazine Contents Page: Oct. 10, 1988 (Contents)
Magazine contents page OCTOBER 10, 1988 Vol. 132 No. 15
Time Magazine Masthead: Oct. 10, 1988 (Masthead)
Magazine masthead OCTOBER 10, 1988 Vol. 132 No. 15
BUSINESS
AUTOS: Well-Squeezed Lemons (Economy & Business)
Well-Squeezed Lemons
BEVERAGES: A Beer with a Mouse Chaser (Economy & Business)
A Beer with a Mouse Chaser
PRODUCTS: Advance To Arbat (Economy & Business)
Advance To Arbat
TAXES: Baby Bashing At the IRS (Economy & Business)
Baby Bashing At the IRS
TELEVISION: And Now, the Soybean Hour (Economy & Business)
And Now, the Soybean Hour
Forgive Us Our Debts (Economy & Business)
A consensus emerges in favor of easing the developing nations' trillion-dollar burden
Jet-Propelled Gooney Birds (Economy & Business)
The Shopping-Cart Raiders (Economy & Business)
Big retailers are profitable targets for the Hafts
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Books: From Crybaby to Curmudgeon (Books)
Video: Late Night With Alex And Dima (Video)
Glasnost hits Soviet TV, and viewers are riveted
Video: Piercing The Privacy Veil (Video)
Show Business: The King Is Dead - or Is He? (Show Business)
The Elvis cult has the makings of a rising new religion
SPECIAL SECTION
All in The Eye of the Beholder
Heptathlete Birgit Dressel : An Athlete Dying Young
Pole Vault: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Platform-Diving: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Judo: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Baseball: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Boxing: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Basketball: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Runner Carl Lewis: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Kenyan Runners: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
High Jump: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Final Frames Of the Olympic Games: Pole Vaulter Sergei Bubka.
Frames Of the Games From the expanses of the running track to the confines of the hardwood court and the diving platform, the world's top athletes produce a bumper crop of new records -- and some stun
Florence Griffith Joyner: Final Frames Of the Olympic Games
Illusions Lost and Regained
Shame Of the Games
Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold in the Olympics' worst drug scandal