• TIME
  • Magazine
  • Subscribe
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Lists
  • Apps
  • Life.com
  • Style

Follow TIME

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google +
  • Tumblr
  • NewsFeed
  • U.S.
  • Politics
  • World
  • Business
  • Money
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Science
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
TIME TIME Magazine
  • Full Archive
  • Covers
  • Videos
  • Current Issue
  • Archive
  • Covers
  • Subscribe
TIME Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers. Current subscribers for full access. Not a TIME subscriber? .

Your subscription has expired. Please click here to gain access again.

Email, Password or Region is incorrect

A required form parameter was missing.

The System is currently down. Please try again in a few minutes.

Email Address is invalid

Password is blank

If you check the "Remember me" box, you will be automatically signed in for 30 days to TIME.com when you visit in the future.

If you are accessing TIME.com on a public computer, you are advised not to click on the "Remember me" option.

For more information, please visit TIME's Privacy Policy

  • Search Magazine Articles
  • Search Magazine Covers
Search From: through
  • See All Covers

September 19, 1983 | Vol. 122 No. 12

  • Previous Issue
  • Next Issue
  • U.S.

    • View Large Cover
    • Buy This Cover

NATION

Turning on the Heat: KAL Flight 007 (COVER STORIES)

The U.S. has Moscow on the defensive over the downed Korean airliner

An Interview with President Reagan

Nightstalkers in the Pacific Sky

Fiddlesticks!

Russian translations of their statements on the downed Korean plane

Explaining the Inexplicable

The Presidency: Advice from an Old Warrior (The Presidency)

Prediction: Sunny Side Up

Downgraded

Vesco Redux

Raising a Man from the Dead

WORLD

Lebanon: Peace Keeping Gets Tough (Lebanon)

A Tale of Two Villages

Chile: Cracking Heads Again (Chile)

Argentina: Front Runner (Argentina)

Nicaragua: Thirty Seconds over Managua (Nicaragua)

Honduras: Making Themselves at Home (Honduras)

Ireland: Trying to Slam the Door (Ireland)

SCIENCE

Science: Shuttle

Science: Adios, Maybe, to El Ni

SOCIETY

Living: Make Way for the New Spartans (Living)

PRESS

Press: How Much Better Twice As Long?

Press: Three for the Money

RELIGION

Religion: Moving into the Mainstream

TECHNOLOGY

Computers: Plugging into the Networks (Computers)

BUSINESS

Trying to Defuse a Debt Bomb (Economy & Business)

Brazil's Ordeal of Austerity (Economy & Business)

Protecting Corporate Secrets (Economy & Business)

The Chips Are Flying Again (Economy & Business)

Tiny 12s (Economy & Business)

Selling Relief (Economy & Business)

Book Audits: Sep. 19, 1983 (Economy & Business)

EDUCATION

Education: Back to First Principles

LAW

Law: Fighting the New Slavery

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Video: And Now, Heeeeere's Alan! (Video)

Art: The Most Parisian of Them All (Art)

Books: More Art from Less Matter (Books)

Books: Compulsions (Books)

Books: He Dunit (Books)

MILESTONES

Milestones: Sep. 19, 1983

PEOPLE

People: Sep. 19, 1983

TO OUR READERS

A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 19, 1983 (A Letter From The Publisher)

LETTERS

Letters: Sep. 19, 1983

ESSAY

Essay: A Good Snob Nowadays Is Hard to Find

Editors Picks

  • Photo Essay

    Photos: Deadly Cold Grips Europe

  • Specials

    New York Fashion Week

  • Photo Essay

    Whitney Houston:
    A Life in Photos

Most Popular

MOST READ
MOST EMAILED
  1. Love Ever After: A Valentine’s Day Special
  2. Your Turn, Canada: A Second-By-Second Look at Jeremy Lin Lighting Up Toronto
  3. Linsanity Heads East, Linfects China and Taiwan
  4. Can Jeremy Lin End The MSG/Time Warner Cable War?
  5. After Whitney Houston, Musicians Say: I'm Afraid
  6. Move Over, Pajama Jeans: Dress-Pant Sweatpants Have Arrived
  7. Rick Santorum Wants to Fight 'The Dangers Of Contraception'
  8. Top 10 Famous Love Letters
  9. Music: White Lies and The White Stripes
  10. Roving the Red Planet
  1. Europe's Deep Freeze: Why Climate Change Is Not (Entirely) to Blame
  2. The Upside Of Being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated)
  3. Attacking Israel's Diplomats: The View from Iran
  4. Friends With Benefits
  5. As Its Single Ranks Swell, Japan Wonders 'Where's the Love?'
  6. It's Alive! The Greatest Space Telescope Ever Built Survives
  7. Halftime and Hyperbole
  8. Harvard's Hoops Star Is Asian. Why's That a Problem?
  9. I Hope I Die Before I Have to Live with Old People
  10. Little Women

Stay Connected with TIME.com

  • Subscribe to
    RSS Feeds
  • Sign Up for
    Newsletters
  • Get the TIME
    Magazine iPad Edition
  • Read TIME Mobile
    on your Phone
  • Become a
    Fan of TIME
  • Get TIME
    Twitter Updates
  • NewsFeed
  • U.S.
  • Politics
  • World
  • Business
  • Money
  • Health
  • Science
  • Entertainment
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Specials
  • Magazine
© 2012 Time Inc. All rights reserved
  • Privacy Policy
  • RSS
  • Newsletter
  • Mobile
  • TIME For Kids
  • Subscribe
  • Contact Us
  • Terms of Use
  • Media Kit
  • Reprints & Permissions
  • Help
  • Site Map
  • Ad Choices
TIME

Our partners

  • CNN
  • CNN MONEY