In this issue
Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 116 No. 25
Read the Cover StoryNATION
Eight for the Cabinet
A Team Player for the Pentagon
A Broker for Treasury
A Missionary For OMB
A Brahmin for Justice
An Idea Man For CIA
A Trio for Tough Departments
Reading the Portents (The Presidency/Hugh Sidey)
Final Payments
Gambits in the Hostage Game
The Last Day in the Life (COVER STORY)
Always a Pun up His Sleeve
A Lethal Delusion
WORLD
Poised for a Showdown
(POLAND) Parleys About Peace and Power (DIPLOMACY)
Aftermath of Four Brutal Murders (EL SALVADOR)
Ironic Justice (ZIMBABWE)
Unruly Vote (UGANDA)
Magic Majority (GUYANA)
Not So Funny (FRANCE)
The "Struggle" of Peres and Rabin (ISRAEL)
SCIENCE
A New Life for a High-Flying Bird
Dwindling Breed
SOCIETY
In Georgia: Plains Revisited
(American Scene)
PRESS
The Man Who Would Be King
A Sinking Feeling About Leaks (Newswatch/Thomas Griffith)
SPORT
Splendor Among the Potted Palms
BUSINESS
The Seven Lean Years
(Energy)
Some Blunt Talk from OPEC (Energy)
Oil for the Lamps of Reagan (Energy)
Nukes: Not Nice, but Necessary (Energy)
Hollywood Finds a Plot (Energy)
The New Conservation Chic (Energy)
Proof It Works (Energy)
Backyard Fuel (Energy)
Strike It Rich (Energy)
Pinching Power (Energy)
EDUCATION
Preschool Pays
Five Figures!
LAW
Toward More Uniform Sentences
Ample Penalty
Weekly Ration
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Muriel's $12 Million Sublimation
(Art)
Comics into Film: Bam! Pow! Eek! (Cinema)
Atonement (Cinema)
Stenos, Anyone? (Cinema)
Viet Nam Vaudeville (Theater)
A Room of Their Own (Books)
Notable (Books)
Sounds for the Solstice (Music)
MILESTONES
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PEOPLE
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TO OUR READERS
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(A Letter From The Publisher)
LETTERS
Morning Shows
ESSAY
Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah
(Time Essay)

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