American Notes CHICAGO
True Grit on The South Side

American Notes DRUGS
A Family Kiss Goodbye

American Notes ENVIRONMENT
Strains on a Friendship

American Notes NEW YORK CITY
A Dealer Pays For His Crimes

American Notes OHIO
Keep Your Whiskers

Taking Jesse Seriously
His emergence as a front runner changes the race -- and the nation

It's Lonely at the Top
Resignations rock the Justice Department, but Ed Meese clings to his job

Jesse's Concentric Circles

Location, Location, Location
With a little help from friends, the Reagans pick a new home

No Vacancy
The housing squeeze gets worse

On The Grapevine

Voices For Jesse


Any Day Now, Honest

Beijing Surprise (Arms)
Missiles for the Saudis

China One for the Money, One Goes Slow
Why the coast outpaces the interior in the race to prosper

Diplomacy Search for Partners
Should the U.S. deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization?

Nicaragua Taking a Baby Step Toward Peace
Talks inch forward as Congress approves more aid for the contras

Panama The General Strikes Back
A defiant Noriega proves that for now, at least, he is still the boss

South Africa Death in a Paris Hallway
An African National Congress aide is gunned down far from home

Soviet Union Introducing Glasnost Giggles
A literary satire takes on the bureaucracy

World Notes AFGHANISTAN
New Offer, Old Refusal

World Notes COLOMBIA
Next Candidate, Please

World Notes SOUTH KOREA
The Ties That Bind

World Notes THE PHILIPPINES
Gringo Jumps Ship

World Notes WEST GERMANY
Too Close A Call


Taking Out, Eating In (Food)
All the comforts of home -- with no cooking


On Granting an Iranscam Pardon (Ethics)
A debate grows over the President's power vs. the public good

When Women Take Up Arms (Living)
More are intent on being their own protectors


In Israel, Wounding the Messenger
An army ban on reporters sends a chilling warning


Worshipers on A Holy Roll
Scandals and Swaggart fail to deter the Assemblies of God


Can't See Woods For the Tees
Metaling with tradition


An Architect for the New Age (Design)
From out of the Southwest rides iconoclastic Antoine Predock


Nothing To Sneeze At

The World on a Silver Platter
A marriage of computers and CDs starts to bear fruit ,


Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page APRIL 11, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 15

Time (Masthead)
Magazine masthead APRIL 11, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 15

Business Notes DAIRY PRODUCTS (Economy & Business)
I Can't Believe It's Not Yogurt

Business Notes PRESS (Economy & Business)
Tabloid King KO's Congress

Business Notes REAL ESTATE (Economy & Business)
A Yen for a Hunk of Hawaii

Business Notes TRADE (Economy & Business)
Tough Talks With Tokyo

No Holds Barred (Economy & Business)
Battling for profits, retailers are making Wrestlemania seem sedate

Putting A Leash on the IRS (Economy & Business)
Congress considers a taxpayers' bill of rights

The Taipan from Yale (Economy & Business)
Jardines, the model for Noble House, picks its first U.S. boss


The Canons Under Fire
Stanford cuts its book list


Bookends (Books)

Dead Letters (Cinema)

Exorcising The Demons of Memory (Theater)
August Wilson exults in the blues and etches slavery's legacy

Funeral March to a Calypso Beat BEETLEJUICE (Cinema)
Directed by Tim Burton Screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren

Get Ready for McRather (Video)
A TV version of USA Today is sparking interest and worry

Siren Songs at Center Stage (Music)
Women violinists of talent and temperament invade a male preserve

When The Outrageous Is the Norm THE HOUSEGUEST (Books)
by Thomas Berger; Little, Brown; 240 pages; $16.95


Tibet's Living Buddha (Profile)
The DALAI LAMA, 14th in a line of God-Kings, seems a remote, otherwordly exile, yet he is leading his countrymen at a turning point in their 29-year struggle for freedom


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