"There Is No Plan B"
Reagan's overreaching riles Panama and Honduras

American Notes FLORIDA
Tennis the Menace?

American Notes MARYLAND
$10,000 per Handgun

American Notes MASSACHUSETTS
Health Care For Everyone

American Notes TEXAS
Pay Up, My Dear Brother

American Notes THE MILITARY
Clearing a Navy Doctor

Bombs In New Jersey and Naples
The Japanese Red Army is suspected in two terrorist actions

Farmer with A Green Thumb

Peace Shield At the Pentagon, a new SDI

Riding The Drug Issue
In New York, saying no to narcotics is a turn on

The Long Goodbye to Byrd
Jockeying begins for the Senate majority leader's job

The Presidency
Speaking out of Turn


Afghanistan Homeward Bound at Last
Amid nagging worries, an accord on Soviet withdrawal is signed

France Shades of Le Grand Charles
As Chirac grabs the race's No. 2 spot, a Gaullist ghost hovers

Middle East Gunned Down in Tunis
The murder of Arafat's deputy ignites fresh Palestinian fury

Shamir: "This Is a New Form of Warfare"

Terrorism Nightmare on Flight 422
Murder and zealotry meet in a jumbo jet

World Notes AFRICA
Day of the Locusts

World Notes BRITAIN
Princely Problems

World Notes POLAND
March of The Living

World Notes SOUTH KOREA
His Brother's Keeper

World Notes THE PHILIPPINES
Chinese Homecoming


A Mouse That Roared
The first U.S. animal patent stirs up a storm in Congress


Fetus Furor (Medicine)

Going Overboard on Medical Tests (Medicine)
Often inaccurate, diagnostic aids may be a costly trap %

Treating an "In" Malady (Health & Fitness)
Some 10 million Americans suffer from TMJ


A Rousing No to Mini-pulation (Living)
American women send designers back to the drawing board

In Florida: Filling the Hours with Bingo ! (American Scene)


Curran Events

Listening to The Voices of Women
U.S. bishops grapple with the sin of sexism in the church


Reach Out and See Someone

The Next Major Battleground
A new breed of chips challenges 25 years of computer design


Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page APRIL 25, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 17

Time (Masthead)
Magazine masthead APRIL 25, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 17

Air Follies (Economy & Business)
Tales of snafus and sloppiness

Business Notes AUTOS (Economy & Business)
Come Fly With Us

Business Notes BANKING (Economy & Business)
To the Rescue: Casey at Bat

Business Notes DEALS (Economy & Business)
Trump Meets His Match

Business Notes SANCTIONS (Economy & Business)
Close to the Last Drop

Business Notes TAKEOVERS (Economy & Business)
Down, But Not Out

Do You Believe In Magic? (Economy & Business)
Starring in its own Cinderella story, Disney transforms itself

Holding Their Banner High (Economy & Business)
Uncle Walt's corporate heirs build on his dreams in the dark

Publishing with A French Accent (Economy & Business)
Hachette spends $1.2 billion to become a major player in the U.S.

Punch in The Eye (Economy & Business)
A rising trade deficit and faster inflation threaten the expansion


Can Kids Flunk Kindergarten?
Yes, sir -- especially where the law mandates tests for first grade


A Tale of Time and the River THE DAY OF CREATION (Books)
by J.G. Ballard; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 254 pages; $17.95

A TV Trial for Waldheim (Video)
The Austrian President's past is probed in a controversial inquiry

Love And Respect, Hollywood-Style (Show Business)
Bernardo Bertolucci's China epic sweeps the Oscars

Swordplay Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Books)
by Carol Felsenthal Putnam; 320 pages; $19.95

Way Out in Africa WHITE MISCHIEF (Cinema)
Directed by Michael Radford Screenplay by Michael Radford and Jonathan Gems


The Dark Comedian (Profile)
RICHARD NIXON, at 75, is still one of the funniest men in America. Only America (abysmal farce) turns out to be funnier than he


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


A Literary Remembrance