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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 113 No. 23
Read the Cover StoryNATION
The Worst U.S. Air Crash
At Issue: Crime and Punishment
Rage in San Francisco
Carter: A Song of Woe
Carter: A Friend Is in Need
Carter: Gas as a Gag
Carter: His Rival Plays Tease
Real Security
Trading Down
Flight of the "Killer Bees"
WORLD
From Trudeau to Plain Joe
(CANADA) Quebec: The Separatism Problem
Tory Toiler
First Harvest of a Peace Treaty (MIDDLE EAST)
Carter's Envoy
Sticks and Carrots
Emerging from the Dark Ages (OMAN)
A Sultan Speaks His Mind
Time for Benign Neglect (RHODESIA)
SCIENCE
Bounding Back
Lobster Bodega
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Private Lives
(Medicine)
Antipsychotics (Medicine)
SOCIETY
Bedroom Battle
(Behavior)
Diagnosis: Sane (Behavior)
PRESS
The Good Humor Man
(COVER STORY) To Columnist Russell Baker, laughter is serious business
Notes from the Academy
A Baker Sampler
SPORT
A Dynasty Spoils a Miracle
BUSINESS
Pressing a Capital Idea
(Economy & Business)
Lift for Savers (Economy & Business)
Then Along Came Jones (Economy & Business)
Going Sour on Sugar Payoffs (Economy & Business)
Chrysler's Skid (Economy & Business)
Another Crude Awakening in Iran (Economy & Business)
Energy from the Americas (Economy & Business / Executive View/Marshall Loeb)
Nein to Nuclear (Economy & Business)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Is There a Doctor in the House?
(Show Business)
Sell Job (Cinema)
Sweeping Cannes (Cinema)
Healing Spring (Music)
Lincoln Center's Big Bash (Music)
Life After Afterlife (Books)
Unlucky Him (Books)
Editor's Choice (Books)
Best Sellers (Books)
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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ESSAY
The Weakness That Starts at Home
(Time Essay)

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The Road on Film: Beautiful, Bleak
Obama's First State Dinner
The Princess and the Frog: Big Fun on the Bayou
Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage