"A New Year We'll Never Forget"
Nearly 100 perish in a suspicious inferno at a San Juan hotel

American Notes DRUNK DRIVING
Leaving the Scene

American Notes LOS ANGELES
Testing the Waters

American Notes SPACE
Out of Court Settlement

American Notes WEATHER
A Rare Cosmic Dance

Cover Story "Be Careful Out There"
As air traffic soars, so does concern about safety in the skies

Flying with TCAS II

Kind Words for Continental

Let Us Entertain You
The competition is on to bag the 1988 conventions

Plutonium
Blues in Hanford An aging reactor closes temporarily, but the debate heats up

The Last Battles
Hobbled by Iran, Reagan struggles to reassert his leadership

The Presidency
Gulliver's Travails


Britain
A Leader for the Last Days of Empire Harold Macmillan: 1894-1986

China
More Wintry Days of Discontent Defying an official ban, students mount new protests in Peking

Iran
Meantime, Back in Tehran / As the U.S. crisis simmers, Khomeini's successors jostle each other for advantage

South Africa
New Rules for Black Schools Pretoria issues tough regulations aimed at crushing dissent

Soviet Union
The Long Hard Road to Moscow After life in the West, 50 disgruntled emigres go home again

T Shirts That Shout

World Notes AFGHANISTAN
Let's Make Another Deal

World Notes FRANCE
Going off The Tracks

World Notes ISRAEL
A Deep Sigh Of Relief

World Notes Japan
The 1.004% Solution

World Notes WEST GERMANY
Play It Again, Mr. Chancellor


Help From The Unborn Fetal-cell (Medicine)
Surgery raises hopes -- and issues

Rough Rides (Health & Fitness)
ATV injuries climb

The "Weight Shrinks" (Health & Fitness)
Dig In Help for serious or just trendy eating problems


Exploring The Traits of Twins (Behavior)
A new study shows that key characteristics may be inherited

In (American Scene)
New York City: An Incantation


Taking A Firm Stand Against Faith
Moscow worries about the growing population of Soviet Muslims


The Bowl of Bowls
In the "get even" game, Paterno and Penn State do


Time (Masthead)
Magazine Masthead JANUARY 12, 1987 Vol. 129, No. 2

"Eye For Eye, Tooth for Tooth" (Economy & Business)
The U.S. uses brinkmanship to handle a trade dispute

And Now, Son of Tax Reform (Economy & Business)
Changes in federal law portend higher state levies in 1987

Business Notes ADVERTISING (Economy & Business)
Ansel Adams, Arms Peddler?

Business Notes FINANCE (Economy & Business)
Beach-Blanket Bank Tellers

Business Notes LAWSUITS (Economy & Business)
Fees, Fie! Foes Fume

Business Notes SERVICES (Economy & Business)
Storefront Post Offices

Business Notes TRANSPORTATION (Economy & Business)
I Left My Car in San Francisco

Hospitals (Economy & Business)
Learn the Hard Sell Feverish competition brings hype to the health-care industry

Pie in The Sky (Economy & Business)
The White House and Congress battle to cut a trillion dollar budget


Academia's New "Gypsies"
With tenure logjammed, colleges turn to part-time faculty


Master Of Cant and Recant
A dark tale of mass murder gets even murkier


Disorientation As An (Theater)
Art Form At 20, the American Repertory still baffles and delights

Getting On the Map (Art)
New money fuels Los Angeles' museum surge

Life (Books)
Studies BLUEBEARD'S EGG AND OTHER STORIES by Margaret Atwood Houghton Mifflin; 281 pages; $16.95

Octopus the Second Oldest Profession (Books)
by Phillip Knightley Norton; 436 pages; $19.95

Pyramid (Art)
Power in Paint

Tough (Books)
Talk and Local Color Bandits by Elmore Leonard; Arbor House; 345 pages; $17.95

View From Prospero's Island (Show Business)
Merchant and Ivory are as hot as tez tamatar shorba


A Letter From the Publisher (A Letter From The Publisher)


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Casablanca In Color?
I'm Shocked, Shocked!