American Notes CIVIL RIGHTS
No Laughing Matter

American Notes EMBARRASSING MOMENTS
Blowing His Cover

American Notes ESPIONAGE
Dialing For Spies

American Notes HOMELESS
The Grate Society

American Notes METEOROLOGY
Change in the Weather

Baker Breaks the Fever
A casual country boy is off to a fast start as chief of staff

Everybody's Doing It
Selling arms to Iran, that is, notably the Europeans

Still Probing For Answers
Investigators forge ahead

That Was Then . . . This Is Now (Cover Stories)

The Bottom Line on Reagan (The Presidency)

Trying a Comeback (Cover Stories)
Reagan concedes error in Iranscam, but can he still lead?

G-Man Among the Spooks (COVER STORIES)
Webster is likely to run the CIA as he did the FBI - by the book

Payoff, Hike!
A fumble for Clements

Pizza Penance
A jury convicts 18 mobsters

The Week of the Dragon


A Tragic End for Day Trippers
Nearly 150 are feared dead as a British ferry capsizes

Disarmament Let's Make a Deal
Gorbachev seizes the initiative with an offer to remove missiles

Espionage Spying Between Friends
The Pollard verdict causes a wave of unease in Israel

Of Arms and Reforms

Onslaughts of Force and Fury (South Korea)
Radical students form the core of opposition to the Chun regime

World Notes CHINA
Misery Hates Company

World Notes DIPLOMACY
Tales of the South Pacific

World Notes ITALY
Ciao to a Brief Stability

World Notes LIBYA
The Flight Into Egypt

World Notes THAILAND
Carousels on The River Kwai


The Shyness Chemical (Medicine)

Tracing (Medicine)
Fragile X Syndrome Research links retardation and autism to an obscure gene defect


Been There, Seen That, Done That (Fashion)
London's Katharine Hamnett has a deft hand for funk

Philadelphia Piping (American Scene)

Psst!Wait Till You Hear This (Behavior)
A scholar says rumors reveal our fears and desires


Days Of Turbulence, Days of Change
Besieged by budget cuts and competitors, network news tries to keep pace

News by the Numbers


Offering The Hope of Heaven
Jimmy Swaggart takes his Pentecostal fervor to Latin America

Putting It Asunder


From Mozart to Megabytes (Computers)
Compact discs now offer a symphony of knowledge too


Time (Contents)
Magazine Contents Page MARCH 16, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 11

Time (Masthead)
Magazine Masthead MARCH 16, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 11

A New Band of Tribal Tycoons (Economy & Business)
With some help from financial wizards, Indians learn to invest

Business Notes AUTOS (Economy & Business)
Cure for a Sickly Stock

Business Notes DEDUCTIONS (Economy & Business)
The Loophole For Portholes

Business Notes EMPLOYMENT (Economy & Business)
The Mighty Yen Hits Home

Business Notes TAXES (Economy & Business)
Just Tell Me Where to Sign

Business Notes WEALTH (Economy & Business)
How a Sultan Pays His Bills

Enjoy Now, Pay Later (Economy & Business)
As oil imports rise and output falls, the U.S. may face a future shock

They Honk When The Krohs Fly By (Economy & Business)
A major developer succumbs to the rough times in real estate

What Am I Bid for This Fine Quota? (Economy & Business)
Auctioning off import rights could boost Government revenues


Silver Bullets for the Needy
Campuses are seeing a renewal of student volunteerism


Handicap Rights
Even AIDS seems covered

Religious Bias
A judge bans "humanist" texts


Bookends (Books)

John (Show Business)
Huston Raises The Dead In California, the director puts Joyce's classic story on film

Lit (Books)
Abner LOOK HOMEWARD: A LIFE OF THOMAS WOLFE by David Herbert Donald Little, Brown; 579 pages; $24.95

Streets Paved with Pitfalls HUNTING COCKROACHES (Theater)
by Janusz Glowacki

The (Music)
Lyrical Assassin at 5 a.m. Got a favorite movie theme? This man probably wrote it

Upside (Books)
Down and Vice Versa A CONFLICT OF VISIONS: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES by Thomas Sowell; Morrow; 273 pages; $15.95


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


A Small Moral Quandary