A Clinic Offers a Choice

American Notes INDIANAPOLIS
Disaster on a "Dead Stick"

American Notes JUSTICE
Free at Last, Free at Last

American Notes MAINE
Big Vote Down East

American Notes THE SENATE
Closing the Book on Bork

American Notes WASHINGTON
Bell Tells A Sorry Story

Coping with The Crash

Pondering A High-Proof Defense
Deaver may say alcoholism caused him to mislead a grand jury

Snuffing A Summit
Gorbachev makes Star Wars the obstacle to a meeting with Reagan

Suffering From Ticker Shock
As the Dow rode a roller coaster, so did the presidential hopefuls


Central America
Deadline Ready, aim, cease-fire?

A Back-Room Man Steps Forward (Japan)
Nakasone taps Takeshita as his successor

The Gulf Punch, Counterpunch
The U.S. avenges a missile attack, and Iran replies with a Silkworm

The Philippines Mean Momma
Aquino tries out a new act

World Notes BELGIUM
When More Is Not Better

World Notes FRANCE
For le Taxi, Blazing Seats

World Notes SRI LANKA
Tigers Too Tough to Tame

World Notes UNITED NATIONS
The Spanish Compromise

World Notes WEST GERMAN
Y Plane Goes, Pilot Stays


King of The Mountains

Probing The Chambers of Cheops
Space-age technology reveals a 4,600-year-old wooden boat

Treasures Reclaimed from the Deep
Exclusive photographs of a rich trove of artifacts from the Titanic


Miracle Worker Cure for river blindness (Medicine)

Was This Operation Necessary? (Medicine)
Doctors question the First Lady's mastectomy decision


A Death, A Life (Ethics)

Examining The Limits of Life (Ethics)
A medical philosopher argues that longer is not always better

In Florida: "Lock Up!" And the Pulse Pounds (American Scene)


Annoying, Appalling, Hilarious
Spy magazine draws blood from the stony Big Apple


Series Heroes Require Introductions
Right up to the end, there was no place like home


Time Magazine Contents Page November 2, 1987 (Contents)
Vol. 130 No. 18

Time Magazine Masthead November 2, 1987 (Masthead)
Vol. 130 No. 18

"I Feel a Lot Poorer Today" (The Crash)
One way or another, everyone is in the market, and anyone can lose

A Shock Felt Round the World (The Crash)
Stock markets plummet and climb between "hell and heaven"

Are Computers to Blame? (The Crash)

Baker: "Wait And See" (The Crash)

After The Fall (The Crash)

Greenspan's Big Test (The Crash)

In The Shadows of the Twin Towers (The Crash)
How America's budget and trade deficits grew to daunting heights

Once Upon A Time in October (The Crash)
A jazz-age tale of shattered illusions and vanished fortunes

Panic Grips The Globe (The Crash)
A crisis spotlights Washington's failures

Rewards For Foresight and Luck (The Crash)

Snapped by Their Own Suspenders Ouch! (The Crash)
Those yuppie brokers and bankers are bitten by the bear

The Rise and Fall of Bud Fox (The Crash)

The Shrinking of Fat City (The Crash)
Brokerages face bankruptcy, layoffs and maybe more regulation

Ways To Get Out from Under (The Crash)


Editors'Choice (Books)

Enchanted City AGENTS OF INNOCENCE (Books)
by David Ignatius Norton; 444 pages; $17.95

Surveying The State of the Lingo (Books)
THE RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: SECOND EDITION, UNABRIDGED 2,510 pages; $79.95

The Grand Maximalist (Art)
Frank Stella brings new life to abstract painting

The Way They Used to Make 'Em (Theater)
Two musical revivals bring some good old pizazz to Broadway


Lyrics Of (Nobel Prizes)
Loss, Theories of Gain Honor for a Soviet emigre poet and an M.I.T. economist

Lyrics Of Loss, Theories of Gain (Nobel Prizes)
Honor for a Soviet emigre poet and an M.I.T. economist


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