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• Publication Date: October 10, 1983
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TOP OF THE WEEK
The Airlines Hit a Downdraft
The nation's airlines seem to be fastening their
seat belts for aone-way flight to oblivion.
Strike-plagued Continental Airlines has resort-
ed to bankruptcy court to escape high-cost la-
bor contracts. Eastern says mounting debts
may force it into bankruptcy unless it can cut
wages. And deregulation has pushed other ma-
jor carriers to the brink as well. Labor-manage-
ment relations have become so strained that the
pilot's union has even threatened to calla na-
tionwide strike. Page 66
CONTENTS
NATIONAL AFFAIRS ...... 26
Andropov's slap at Reagan
Mondale's triple play
Shoring up the right
Who rules the land?
Nonstop trouble at TMI
Texas: frogs on the roof
Unintended pregnancies:
a startling statistic
The CIA is back in business
(the cover)
A most unlikely superspook
The Afghan connection
Green grow the Green Berets
INTERNATIONAL ......... 51
Lebanon: can the truce hold?
The princely peacemaker
The IRA's great escape
Philippines: a return to martial
law?
China: awelcome-and
a warning
Australia's cup frenzy
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America's Secret Warriors: The CIA Reborn
The cloaks and daggers have been brought out of cold storage at
Ronald Reagan's Central Intelligence Agency. After a sharp
decline in clandestine work during the 1970s, there are now more
than 1,000 CIA undercover specialists-and more CIA-backed
covert operations under way than at any time since the 1960s.
With gruff, controversial William J. Casey (left) at the helm, the
agency has sponsored large-scale "special activities" in Iran,
Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Thailand and Nicaragua (right). But
Congress is disturbed. As Casey goes about the task of strengthen-
ing the CIA and plugging its leaks, serious doubts remain about
the propriety and effectiveness of clandestine operations. Page38
The Outrageous Comedy Queen of TV
Frantic, frank and utterly shameless, Joan Rivers has
turned herself into television's hottest female comic.
Her jokes expose the warts and double chins of
celebrities-perhaps making others feel a bit better
about their own wrinkles. But Rivers remains ob-
sessedwith her past failures, which may be the key to
her scorching humor and success. Page 58
ENTERTAINMENT......... 58
Joan Rivers gets even with
laughs
JUSTICE ................. 61
Supreme Court: no hiding place
this term
SPORTS ................. 65
Pushing toward the pennant
BUSINESS ............... 66
The airlines fight for survival
Is bankruptcy misused?
Steel: an urgent need to merge
The "nightmare" that grips
the IMF
A star turns bean counter
Beer: Alex laps it up
Seeking a Chemical formula
RELIGION ................ 78
The pope vs. the U.S. church
OCTOBER 10, 1983
Pride and Joy Down Under
All-night parties spilled into the streets,
flags were unfurled-and much of Aus-
tralia went bonkers. After 132 years,
Australia II had become the first chal-
lenger to beat the United States and win
the America's Cup. The victory pro-
vided awelcome distraction from the
country's economic troubles. Together
with recent successes in the arts and
sciences, the triumph helped fuel a new
sense of pride Down Under. Page 56
SCIENCE ................. 80
Down to the past in ships
Love Canal: a clue from voles
BOOKS .................. 83
"Louis Armstrong," by James
Lincoln Collier
"The Mind-Body Problem," by
Rebecca Goldstein
"The Return of Martin
Guerre," by Natalie Zemon
Davis
"Fools of Fortune,"
by William Trevor
TELEVISION .............. 91
America's first television war
MOVIES .................. 93
Connery never says never
"Danton": brothers in blood
"Brainstorm": mental telepathy
OTHER DEPARTMENTS
Letters ................. 4
Update ................. 16
Periscope .............. 23
Newsmakers ........... 89
Transition .............. 94
THE COLUMNISTS
My Turn:
Ralph Schoenstein ...... 10
Pete Axthelm ........... 63
Jane Bryant Quinn ...... 76
George F. Will .......... 96
Lester C. Thurow is on
vacation.
Cover: Steve Phillips, photo by
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by Douglas Kirkland-Sygma.
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LETTERS
U.S. Peacekeeping in Lebanon
The Reagan administration and Con-
gress must think that the American people
are fools who've forgotten the lessons of
Vietnam if they expect us to believe that a
few Marines and warships can magically
quell centuries-old religious hatred in the
Mlddle Ea$t (SPECIAL REPORT, Sept. 26).
This kind of bankrupt thinking from our so-
called leaders is what makes the American
citizen feel utterly hopeless and cynical
about the government.
DON SHAW
East Aurora, N.Y.
If we let the rebel forces in Lebanon think
that they can make America pull out of
the peacekeeping force by inflicting enough
casualties on our Marines, then our pres-
ence there is futile. But if Congress and the
administration can work together to
strengthen our commitment, we can help to
bring about a lasting peace. To abandon our
commitment now would be a cruel betrayal
of all those who have placed their hope in us.
GERARD B. KOPCZYNSKI
Whitewater, Wis.
George Will couldn't have said it better:
"Listening to Lebanese extremists calls to
mind the inmates who rioted because the
prison food was inedible and they were de-
niedseconds." I, too, think Reagan's on the
right track. What the president needs to do
now is get all the force he can and quickly
step in and establish a true state of peace.
This would give what there is of Gemayel's
government a chance to get off the ground.
BRIAN KIMBALL
Richfield, Utah
Poison From the Sky?
In his review of Grant Evans's "The Yel-
low Rainmakers" (BOOxs, Sept. 26), Gene
Lyons states that "if Evans's case [against
the existence of yellow rain] stands up to the
rigorous going-over that yellow-rain believ-
ers must now attempt, it will serve as a
classic study in the way rumor can meta-
morphose into fact." But the facts are there
for all to see. Analyses of a wide variety of
samples, e.g., soil, vegetation, agent residue,
human blood and tissue, are considered, as
are other relevant data. All fully support the
same conclusion: that chemical and toxin
weapons are being used by the Soviets, the
Vietnamese and the Lao against innocent
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LETTERS
men, women and children of Afghanistan,
Kampuchea and Laos. Yellow rain cannot
be explained away by questionable socio-
logical assumptions and pseudoscientific
conjecture. The deaths of defenseless people
in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan are sim-
ply not the result of flukes of nature.
LAWRENCE S. EAGLEBURGER
Under Secretary of State
for Political Affairs
Washington, D.C.
Sakharods Letter to the West
Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov's letter
in the summer 1983 issue of the U.S. journal
Foreign Affairs, which you described as
"urging the West to increase its military
strength" (PERISCOPE, Sept. 19), mainly
concerned the horror of nuclear war, which
he termed "collective suicide." The scien-
tist stressed that the West should achieve
parity in conventional weapons only as a
necessary part of the nuclear disarmament
process.
CHRIS RAND
Kingsville, Texas
As McGovern Sees It
George MCGOVern (NATIONAL AFFAIRS,
Sept. 26) has long provided hope for those in
despair. If the world were as McGovern sees
it, he would be the best president. Unfortu-
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LETTERS
nately few world leaders share McGovern's
moral sense and so his policies of peace
might be more apt to lead us into war.
JOHN A. OPAR
Wayne, N.J.
A Case of Misidentity
Iri the NEWSMAKERS SeCtlOri Of the JUIy 4
issue, you said that Adelina, the magazine
which misidentified British novelist Jackie
Collins as the subject of nude photos it
published three years ago, was owned by
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. Mr. Flynt
has never been the owner of Adelina. While
Ms. Collins did sue the publisher of Ade-
lina, the verdict was against Flynt Distrib-
uting Co., Inc., solely on the basis of FDC's
distribution of the magazine.
NEIL I. ADELMAN
Assistant General Counsel
Larry Flynt Publications, Inc.
Los Angeles, Calif.
J NEWSWEEK 1'EgP2tS the CrrOr.
Presidential Hearing
We are very encouraged to see that Presi-
dent Reagan is sporting a new intracanal
hearing aid (MEDICINE, Sept. 19). It's high
time hearing aids came out of the dresser
drawer and we hope that Mr. Reagan will
serve as a role model for the thousands of
hearing-impaired individuals who need, but
are not using, amplification. Perhaps an
attractive hearing aid such as his will moti-
vate greater numbers of people to go for
help. Thus, more and more people will be
using hearing aids and hearing loss might
not be viewed so negatively. However, as
your article states, the intracanal aid is not
for everyone. Medical clearance followed
by a complete evaluation by a certified au-
diologist isstrongly recommended to deter-
mine which kind of hearing aid is best for a
particular person.
CYNTHIA C. FERNANDES
MARY BARRY
Washington, D.C.
Contemporary Coupling
I was appalled at the findings reported by
sociologists Blumstein and Schwartz in their
just published "American Couples" (LIFE/
STYLE, Sept. 19). That many husbands still
believe their wives shouldn't work, and that
wives who asked their husbands to help out
with the housework could sometimes sour
the marriage only proves how far the sexes
still are from equality. I just hope we can
teach our children a fairer approach to hu-
man relationships and that they can learn
from our mistakes.
ROSE SAMMARITANO
New York, N.Y.
So sex for men can be as casual as a
handshake and a couple's success is meas-
ured by his achievements. It sounds as
though only half of the "me"generation has
grown up.
JACKIE COOPER-GLENN
Bakersfield, Calif.
Hoover Did It
Former presidential speechwriter Aram
Bakshian's statement (MY TURN, Sept. 26)
that "the last president to write all of his
own speeches was Woodrow Wilson" might
have been more accurate had he qualified it
"with the probable exception of Herbert
Hoover." If Hoover had a ghostwriter, it
was awell-kept secret. He was a reluctant
public speaker, but it seems that the speech-
es he did give were his own. The evidence
includes Mr. Hoover's own memoirs, in
which he noted that "inasmuch as I have
refused all my life to use a ghostwriter, I
required intervals of two or three weeks to
prepare each address."
NICHOLAS M. GRIPE
Indianapolis, Ind.
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