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Time Magazine Contents Page January 11, 1988

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COVER: After 20 years, the apocalyptic events of 1968 are still reverberating

Like a knife blade, the year of riot and revolution severed the U. S. from its triumphant optimism, exposing a confused, divided country that was fighting a war it could not win. The dramas of 1968 shaped the world we know today: heroes were gunned down, the Soviets trampled Prague' s spring, Richard Nixon was elected, and man for the first time orbited the moon. See NATION.

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WORLD: Israel counters a wave of Arab violence with trials and a troop buildup

Following some of the worst rioting...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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