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# December 14, 1981 | Vol. 118 No. 25 December 14, 1981 |  

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Vol. 118 No. 25

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Issue name

December 14th, 1981 | Vol. 118, No. 25 | U.S.

Issue date

December 14, 1981

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U.S.

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## Table of Contents

Others

[The President's Men](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925086,00.html)[Fighting for Vindication](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925087,00.html)[Reagan's Cabinet: Mixed Grades](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925088,00.html)[The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: The Unwritten Code of Conduct](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925089,00.html)[A Plot Thickens](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925090,00.html)[How Poorly Off Are the Elderly?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925091,00.html)[Wrist Slap](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925092,00.html)[Urban Uprising](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925093,00.html)[Terror Trek](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925094,00.html)[The Last Hours of Natalie Wood](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925095,00.html)[A City Loses Its Heart](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925096,00.html)[Disarmament: Reaching for the Limits](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925097,00.html)[The Yankee and the Germanist](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925098,00.html)[Poland: Sparks, But No Flames](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925099,00.html)[Nicaragua: Life in the Bunker Republic](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925100,00.html)[Egypt: The Men in the Steel Cage](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925101,00.html)[Middle East: A Quiet Little Memorandum](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925102,00.html)[China: Hard Times](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925103,00.html)[United Nations: Kurt Reply](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925104,00.html)[Mercenaries: No Grounding the Geese](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925105,00.html)[Medicine: Taking Stock of Bonding](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925131,00.html)[Medicine: Capsules: Dec. 14, 1981](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925132,00.html)[Appalachia: Hatfields and McCoys](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925085,00.html)[Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Taking His Case to the Network Torquemadas](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925109,00.html)[Religion: Hardening the Papal Lineup](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925123,00.html)[Religion: Jailed Jesuits](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925124,00.html)[Sport: Fight One More Round](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925127,00.html)[Design: Mirroring American Taste](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925106,00.html)[Gathering Gloom for Workers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925110,00.html)[Jobs Go Begging](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925111,00.html)[Beating the IRS](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925112,00.html)[Valley of Thefts](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925113,00.html)[Toys for Tots](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925114,00.html)[Big Bang Bust](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925115,00.html)[Family Affair](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925116,00.html)[Prime Mover](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925117,00.html)[Dividends: Getting All On Board](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925118,00.html)[Lights, Cameras, Wills](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925119,00.html)[A Gift of Tongues](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925120,00.html)[Law: Age of Accountability](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925121,00.html)[Video: Saved by the Numbers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925107,00.html)[Books: Treasures of Art and Nature](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925125,00.html)[Art: Sculpture as Good as Old](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925126,00.html)[Cinema: Right Spirit, Wrong Cause](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925128,00.html)[Cinema: Sour Notes](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925129,00.html)[Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 14, 1981](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925130,00.html)[Milestones: Dec. 14, 1981](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925122,00.html)[On the Record: Dec. 14, 1981](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925108,00.html)[A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 14, 1981](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925083,00.html)[Letters: Dec. 14, 1981](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925084,00.html)[Essay: A World of Exaggeration!](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925133,00.html)


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