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


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)


A New Life for a High-Flying Bird

Dwindling Breed


In Georgia: Plains Revisited (American Scene)


The Man Who Would Be King

A Sinking Feeling About Leaks (Newswatch/Thomas Griffith)


Splendor Among the Potted Palms

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)


Preschool Pays

Five Figures!


Toward More Uniform Sentences

Ample Penalty

Weekly Ration


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)


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Read the story


Read the story (A Letter From The Publisher)


Morning Shows


Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah (Time Essay)