Table of ContentsHart Murmurs Is there life after Bimini? A Burden Too Heavy to Bear Insurance companies face the staggering cost of AIDSAmerican Notes ESPIONAGE The Marine Verdict: Guilty There's Green in Them Thar Hills Emerald hunting yields profits and perils in ColombiaThe Songs of the South As both parties whistle Dixie, Democrats wait for Sam to decideBusiness Notes LABOR Beer in the Lunch Pail These Cowboys Are Convicts In Colorado, inmates learn to tame horses -- and themselvesWalking Papers The FBI nabs a historianBusiness Notes TAKEOVERS Another Stab At Gillette Business Notes INSIDER TRADING Never Play With Guns Sifting Through the Wreckage Investigators are still stymied by the crash of Flight 255Business Notes HOUSING Raise High The Roof Beam Miracle Girl Business Notes CRIME The Mounties Get Their Man MIDDLE EAST Time for Sweeping Gestures The hunt for mines goes on, as a Saudi arms deal is proposedCOVER STORY The New Whiz Kids Why Asian Americans are doing so well, and what it costs themDreaming the Impossible at M.I.T. In the Media Lab, the goal is to put the audience in controlAmerican Notes IOWA A Reprieve For Old Mama Special Delivery from the Pope An affecting letter eases strains between Jews and the VaticanLEBANON Escape from Beirut Where Iran and Syria duel, an American hostage goes freeAmerican Notes CRIME ''I'm a Dead Man'' American Notes THE ATLANTIC Killer in The Waves Re-Examining the 36-Hour Day New York State leads a movement to change the way U.S. doctors are trained''You First'' Testing an AIDS vaccine American Notes DALLAS Acknowledging The Past Getting NASA Back on Track Astronaut Sally Ride proposes a return to the moonWorld Notes SOVIET UNION Those Sugar-Bowl Blues Treacherous Waters Mozart, Moses and Money The Salzburg Festival had scores as well as dealsGERMANY The Inmate of Spandau's Last Wish Rudolf Hess: 1894-1987Righting History SOUTH KOREA Sputtering Back to Life Hyundai settles with its workers, but new strikes are calledFragile Accord THE NETHERLANDS Tolerance Finally Finds Its Limits After years of permissiveness, the Dutch wonder if they have gone too farTIME magazine contents page AUGUST 31, 1987 Vol. 130 No. 9 BRITAIN Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday A lone gunman brings death to a sleepy English townShifting Sands SRI LANKA Narrow Escape Attack in the meeting room A Letter from the ChairmanGung Ho in the Gulf Newswatch The Best Journalist of His TimeJust the Fax, Ma'am Facsimile machines shrink in size, drop in price and win fansArtful Controversy A Case of Divided Loyalties FREEDOM by William Safire; Doubleday; 1,125 pages; $24.95Dubious Title Demon's Grip YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS by Joyce Carol Oates Dutton; 436 pages; $19.95Franchising Fever For a haircut, workout or hearing aid, proceed to the nearest chain storeWorld Notes ISRAEL Shades of Ollie North The Secret Army Ambitious goals, exotic names -- but disappointing resultsSilver Lining IN SEARCH OF MELANCHOLY BABY by Vassily Aksyonov Translated by Michael Henry Heim and Antonina W. Bouis Random House; 227 pages; $15.95World Notes MEXICO Politics over Chilaquiles It's a Tropical Heat Wave Fantasy restaurants inspired by the sunny CaribbeanBlacks at the Times Return of 007 A New Age Dawning Oommm . . . around the worldHistory Without LettersExecutive Toque World Notes INDIA When the Rain God Failed Cause of Death World Notes CHINA Trouble for the Man Upstairs