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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 106 No. 23
Read the Cover StoryNATION
Last-Minute Bailout Of a City on the Brink
(NEW YORK) Bitter Outbreak on Rikers Island (JAILS)
For Now, Standing Pat at the U.N. (DIPLOMACY)
Revolt from the Center? (REPUBLICANS)
Off to China with Betty and Books (THE PRESIDENCY/HUGH SIDEY)
Fromme's Fate (TRIALS)
There It Was (THE NAVY)
Jerry Brown: Learning to Live with Our Limits (INTERVIEW)
An Eroded Faith (INVESTIGATIONS)
A Gift of Jobs (AMERICAN NOTES)
The New Wilderness
The Fourth R
Enough Roads?
WORLD
At Last, the Good Guys Seem to Have Won
(The World / PORTUGAL)
The First Arab on the Second Front (The World / SYRIA)
Assad: Other Routes to Peace (The World)
On the Edge of Collapse (The World / LEBANON)
Pomp, Prayer and Protest (The World / SPAIN)
Europe's New Renegade Reds (The World / COMMUNISTS)
The Border of Tension (The World / BANGLADESH)
Ten Years of Le Guide (The World / ZAIRE)
SCIENCE
The Great Nuclear Debate
(Environment)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Transplants: Shumway's Way
(Medicine)
Capsules (Medicine)
SOCIETY
No Deus ex Machina
(Behavior)
Ethnics All (Behavior)
PRESS
New Look at the News
(The Press)
Thoroughbred Entry (The Press)
SPORT
HALF A TON OF TROUBLE
(COVER STORY) BUSINESS
A Stunning Comeback
(Economy & Business / TEXTILES)
Slight Slowing of the Recovery (Economy & Business)
Gulf Oil's Misplaced Gifts (Economy & Business / SCANDALS)
Student-Loan Mess (Economy & Business)
Non-Crunch on Pringle's (Economy & Business / MARKETING)
A Jury of Its Peers (Economy & Business / ACCOUNTING)
An Unlikely Lecturer (Economy & Business / EXECUTIVES)
EDUCATION
U. Mass. 1, Harvard 0
That Suffocating Federal Help
LAW
Craftsman for the Court
(The Law)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Anka's Aweigh
(Show Business)
Curiosity Slop (Cinema)
Blind Injustice (Cinema / SPECIAL SECTION)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS (Books)
Waugh Stories (Books)
Best Sellers (Books / FICTION)
Inhuman Lear (The Theater)
False Premises (The Theater)
MILESTONES
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PEOPLE
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TO OUR READERS
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(A Letter From The Publisher)
LETTERS
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(Forum)

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