Table of ContentsPREACHER, TEACHER, GADFLY WILLIAM BENNETT is leaving as Secretary of Education, but his tart tongue and ample ego will keep him highly visible -- and audible -- and could well propel him higher in the G.O.P.American Notes IMMIGRATION Refugees Need Not Apply Wowing 'Em with Wizardry The Democrats plan the world's most automated conventionAmerican Notes DISASTER Crushing Deluge American Notes CHICAGO Draping an Old Eyesore The Case of the Little Big Man An octogenarian lawyer mixes courtroom and show-biz talents''We Will Enter a New Era''TIME magazine masthead JULY 18, 1988 Vol. 132 No. 3 MEXICO Too Close For Comfort A shaken P.R.I. claims victoryDIPLOMACY Swords into Sample Cases On the heavily armed Sino-Soviet border, tension is giving way to tradeTIME magazine contents page JULY 18, 1988 Vol. 132 No. 3 Taking Aim DISASTER ''Screaming Like a Banshee'' An exploding platform takes 166 lives in the North SeaSOVIET UNION Cleaning Up the Confetti Gorbachev moves to put party-conference reforms into actionControversial Commemoration Defending the Poor World Notes SOUTH KOREA A Brotherly Hand The Fight Game World Notes YUGOSLAVIA The Climate: Hot, Bothered On the Rampage Popular Kids World Notes ISRAEL Very Deep Background World Notes TAIWAN Getting Back On Track World Notes WEST GERMANY Terrorism on Trial And Steffi Will Play the Winner While visiting its past, tennis reorders its futureAdamant Archbishop High-Tech Horror How a $600 million system figured in a ghastly accidentHarry Sundown THE DEAD POOL Directed by Buddy Van Horn Screenplay by Steve SharonAll Hands on Deck! As the jobless rate falls, companies confront growing labor shortagesMr. C., the Skills SergeantCartoony Caper A FISH CALLED WANDA Directed by Charles Crichton Screenplay by John CleeseBusiness Notes MARKETS Breaking the Next Fall Special Delivery UNSENT LETTERS by Malcolm Bradbury Viking; 218 pages; $16.95Summer and Scrabble London's Dry Season Despite starry revivals, West End writing is wiltingSoviet Church and State Veni, Vidi, Vindicated? Tarnished but unindicted, the Attorney General calls it quitsJournals of the Plague Years Three books reveal the risks and rewards of writing about AIDSBusiness Notes ELECTRONICS The Dual VCR On Pause Business Notes JAPAN How to Make Pals with Pols Beyond the Wildest Expectations At a remarkable auction, Soviet artists come into their ownCalls for Revenge -- and Caution Despite Iranian threats, reaction to Flight 655's fate is mutedWhen Bad Things Are Caused by Good NationsInvasion of the Airwave Snatchers Electronic gremlins have Americans tuning in their neighborsBusiness Notes INDICTMENTS A Little Too Clever? COVER STORY Onward to Mars A dramatic launch heralds a new era of missions to the Red PlanetFrustrated But Jacqueline liked KittySearching for Mr. Right And now for the swimsuit competitionThe Perils of Zero Gravity Dukakis Wants to Play by the Rules What's so unnerving about a candidate who has actually read the Rio Treaty?When Is a Bishop Not a Bishop? Episcopalians enact an odd plan to avert a schism over womenAmerican Notes CONGRESS Saving Fort Pork Barrel The Presidency Reagan on a Roller CoasterThe Gods Are CrazyHeading for An Override? Senators okay a pro-labor bill
