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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 117 No. 13
Read the Cover StoryNATION
Rumbling Toward Ruin
Can Anyone Fx Those Flxibles?
An Easy Poll-Axing
Going Reagan Billions Better
An Army in Pinstripes and Guccis (The Presidency)
The Alexandrian Strategic View
Piping Up from the NSC
Politics Makes Strange Envoys
Zealous Lord of a Vast Domain
The Next Hurrah
Itchy Feet
The Last Days of Poletown
Shuttle Tragedy
The Champ of Champlain (Americana)
Going Out in Style (Americana)
Bad News Bears (Americana)
WORLD
A Victory for Terrorism
(HIJACKING) "Bound to Encourage Others"
"We Are from These People" (EL SALVADOR)
Bad Day at Bydgoszcz (POLAND)
A Campaign Catches Fire (FRANCE)
The Squatters (WEST GERMANY)
A Half-Won War (ARMED FORCES)
Facing Up to the Last Retreat (MIDDLE EAST)
War Stories
SOCIETY
In California: The Life and Death of a Good Joke
(American Scene)
Prickly but Imperiled Species (Living)
Peanut Envy (Living)
PRESS
Interviews, Soft or Savage
(Newswatch) RELIGION
And They Knew Not Joseph
SPORT
Boycott Blues
Bye-Bye Boston
BUSINESS
How Japan Does It
(Economy & Business / COVER STORY)
Consensus in San Diego (Economy & Business)
A Daily "Samurai Duel" (Economy & Business)
EDUCATION
Crumbling the Pyramids
LAW
The Fastest Gun in the West
Expensive Time
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Lo and Hum as Ho and Hum
(Theater)
The New Hollywood: Dead or Alive? (Cinema)
Viva Verdi! Viva Verdi! (Music)
The Long Way to Broadway (Show Business)
A Moral, Exportable Sleuth (Books)
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Travelogue (Books)
Best Sellers (Books / FICTION)
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
Oops! How's That Again?

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