"They Cannot Fend for Themselves"
That is why Marian Edelman became a top lobbyist for children

Aids Becomes a Political Issue
The New Right seeks to make it a litmus test for Republicans

American Notes DEMOCRATS
Cut Out the Rough Stuff

American Notes DRUGS
A $1.5 Billion Inside Job

American Notes MONTANA
Back to Lewis And Clark?

American Notes POLITICS
Enter Babbitt, Repeatedly

American Notes THE WEST
Bringing In A Badman

Campaign Portrait
Survivor On the Track Dole plugs conservatism with compassion

Congress
Shows Its Impatience With an artful ploy, it registers coolness toward the contras

Farewell, Dark Prince

Soviets In San Diego?
Washington proposes a sweeping on-site inspection plan

Teen Suicide
Two death pacts shake the country

The "Dapper Don" Beats a Rap
Crime Boss John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering charges

The Presidency
The Establishment Steps In

Timing Tiff
Immunity now -- or later?

What the Abm
Treaty Means


Decline of The Superspies

Ecuador Slow Killers
Twin quakes take a brutal toll

Israel Uproar over a Spy
The Pollard case sparks new U.S.-Israeli tensions

Japan
A Whiff of Blood In the Water Furor over a tax plan

Mexico Let Us Now Await the Hidden One
The ruling party prepares to pick a presidential candidate

South Africa 306
Solutions to a Baffling Problem A new book presents an intriguing scenario for the future

World Notes CZECHOSLOVAKIA
An End to All That Jazz

World Notes DISASTERS
Grief and a Ghost Ship

World Notes LEBANON
Bed Check In Beirut

World Notes NIGERIA
When Passions Spill Over

World Notes SOVIET UNION
Moonshine on The Volga


A Super Stargazer (Cover Story)

Supernova! (Cover Story)
Scientists are agog over the brightest exploding star in 383 years

The Fate of the Sun (Cover Story)


In Illinois: The Longest Jury Trial Drones On (American Scene)

Sexes (Sexes)

When The Date Turns into Rape (Sexes)
Too often the attacker is the clean-cut acquaintance next door


Hard Times at a "Can-Do" Network
After new layoffs, a debate rages over the future of CBS News


Technology and The Womb
Rome denounces some rapidly spreading methods of conception


Springing for The Check
How hard was Forbes Field? Forbes Field was so hard . . .


Time (Contents)
Magazine Contents Page MARCH 23, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 12

Time (Masthead)
Magazine Masthead page MARCH 23, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 12

A Daredevil Wheel Deal (Economy & Business)
Chrysler takes a chance by buying AMC

Benefits (Economy & Business)
Left Out In the Cold

Charge of The Plastic Brigade (Economy & Business)
American Express starts a new credit-card war with Optima

Regulation (Economy & Business)
More Bucks For Babble

Retailing (Economy & Business)
From Blackface To Redface

Swindles (Economy & Business)
Bad Marks at Volkswagen

Technology (Economy & Business)
Keep the Fox From the Coop

The Insider (Economy & Business)
Scandal Travels Abroad A Briton and an Israeli are accused of illegal trading

Who Said Takeovers Were Dead? (Economy & Business)
From casinos to airlines, the bidding becomes brisk again


Gimme Shelter
A wider opening for refugees

Triple Reverse
Investigative reporting upheld


An Epic of the Downtrodden (Theater)
Les Miserables sets Broadway sales records -- and deserves to

Bone Crack LETHAL WEAPON (Cinema)
Directed by Richard Donner Screenplay by Shane Black

Chain Reactions $ THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB (Books)
by Richard Rhodes Simon & Schuster; 886 pages; $22.95

Franco (Music)
Zeffirelli in Chinatown And a new Turandot at the Met

Friday Night FOE (Books)
by J.M. Coetzee Viking; 157 pages; $15.95

Onlookers At A Revolution PERSIAN NIGHTS (Books)
by Diane Johnson; Knopf; 352 pages; $17.95

Reclaiming A Vital Heritage (Show Business)
A New Jersey warehouse yields a trove of old-master tunes

Rootless People RAISING ARIZONA (Cinema)
Directed by Joel Coen; Screenplay by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen


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