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Publication: April 15, 1985

General Note: National Affairs
Reagan's New Contra Ploy
The U.S. and Japan Tangle on Trade
A Tricky Budget Compromise
Mondale: Back in the Headlines
San Francisco's Keystone Cops
A Rape "Victim" Recants
The Von Bulows: Part Two

Special Report
The Legacy of Vietnam (the cover)
We're Still Prisoners of War
Scenes from a Nightmare: A Photo Essay
Saigon's Final Days
Where is My Father?
South Vietnam Today: Learning to Live with Peace
Why Didn't the Dominoes Fall?
Hearts and Minds: a Dialogue on the War
Starting Over in America

International
El Salvador: Duarte's Big Victory
Murder and Mexican Justice
Argentina: the "Dirty War" Ends
A French Guide to Soviet Espionage
Sudan: Nimeiry's Gathering Storm

Business
A Medical Megamerger: Shape of Things to Come?
The CBS Rumor Mill
Countdown for Tax Shelters
The Compact-Disc Boom
A Jaguar Bites Twice

Sports
Triumph and Disgrace

Dance
An Innovator for All Seasons

Technology
The Electronic Informer

Books
"Later the Same Day," by Grace Paley
"Exodus and Revolution," by Michael Walzer
"Station Island," by Seamus Heaney

Theater
The Making of a Monarch
Neil Simon: In the Army Now

Life/Style
Getting High on "Ecstacy"

Justice
A Stun Gun for Everyone?

Science
Life's First Building Block: Clay?

Other Departments
Letters
Update
Periscope
Transition
Newsmakers

The Columnists
My Turn: Donald Hall - Bring Back the Out-Loud Culture
George F. Will - Don't Beep in My Outfield

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Citation: Newsweek, 1452Serial215499. No Date, Gary Noller Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1452Serial215499, Accessed 27 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 1452Serial215499, Gary Noller Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

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