Table of ContentsDeafening Beat The Smiling Lures Of Thailand A hot holiday spot offers exoticism and bargains Grapevine Baseball's Egghead Student Garb BRITAIN Man in the Middle Labor's leader eases his line JAPAN Dress Them In Mourning As Hirohito's health declines, the mood turns somberGunned Down Grapevine DATA SNATCHERS A Flawed Hero in a Flawed WarGrapevine Wise GuyAtavistic GondolasGrapevine TIME Magazine contents page Vol. 132 No. 16 OCTOBER 17, 1988 Ninety Long Minutes in Omaha The overprogrammed Quayle was a poor match for BentsenWorld Notes Serbs 15 Politburo 0 World Notes The Battle Of Algiers How It Plays In Toledo The debate and the campaign as seen through the eyes of a key Rustbelt cityThe Power at the Kingdom A harsh new biography looks at ex-Times editor A.M. RosenthalA Beat Box with Four Octaves Singer Bobby McFerrin breaks big and gets happy -- very happySpecial Report: The Crash, One Year Later A Financial House of CardsThree-Piece Suit Design changes at the Journal TIME Magazine masthead Vol. 132 No. 16 OCTOBER 17, 1988 World Notes Progress Round The Clock Fighting for Water in the Colonias A Texas nun teaches Mexican Americans the uses of Chicago-style political activismHer Peak ExperienceSOUTH AFRICA The Front Line Begins to Wobble Botha travels the continent to breach black hostilityThe Lady's Got More MusicANGOLA Where Blossoms And Bullets Grow The foreigners may leave soon, but a civil war remainsWorld Notes A Record for Repression A MOST UNCOMMON SCOLD ALLAN BLOOM, criticized as sexist and elitist for insisting that students master the foundations of Western civilization, sees ''a new kind of thought control'' at work.Catching the Broadway BugJews in Vermont Business Notes A Ragtop for The Long Haul Racism in the Raw In Suburban Chicago Two harrowing tales show how brutal bias can still beThat's the Ticket!Next Year's Nobelist?CAMPAIGN ISSUES Trade: Getting Back into the GameBusiness Notes Unlikely Copilots How to Succeed in BusinessGrapevine Business Notes Recipe for A Takeover Business Notes Trim a Little Off the Top Seeing Degas As Never Before A superb retrospective of the great French realist opens in New York CityAnd Now, the Omaha Oscars The Presidency Dumb Question, Worse AnswerOther Voices, Other RoomsSpecial Report: One Year Later It Was the Best of Times . . . The crash has made winners of raiders, investigators and con menSpecial Report: The Crash, One Year Later . . . It Was the Worst of Times The losers include fallen gurus, battered brokers and rich dropoutsKnockdown DuelThe Votes That Really CountSOVIET UNION Perestroika Hits the KGB Gorbachev attempts to bend the third pillarThe New Season: Boomers and HumorsTERRORISM Many Rumors, One Release Will more hostages be freed?Balancing Minds and Souls How Catholic should Catholic colleges be?American Notes In Sickness And in Stealth Tuesday, the Rabbi Bought PTL An odd new ownership for the moribund evangelistic empireCHILE Fall of the Patriarch Pinochet loses at the polls, but democracy is not the victor yetAmerican Notes Sauce for The Gander Business Notes We Really Must Insist American Notes The National Debt at $39.95 Big Trouble at Savannah River Probes of a nuclear plant reveal safety flaws and near accidentsAmerican Notes Don't Eat The Daisies COVER STORY The Big Boys' Blues Challenged by cable, VCRs and an audience eager to zap, the networks face the most troubled fall in their history
