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Publication: October 22, 1984

General Note: National Affairs
After the Debate: Reagan and the Age Issue
A Medical Look at Aging
Bush and Ferraro: Shoot-Out at Gender Gap
Getting Ready for Debate II
Has Moscow Violated SALT?
Congress: A Rush to Adjournment
A Classic Texas Confrontation
San Diego's mayoral Race
A Copycat Assault
The Mysterious Curse of Friendly Hills

International
Thatcher's Narrow Excape
El Salvador: Duarte Offers to Talk
Grenada: Rethinking The Invasion
Israel: Bracing a Partner in Need
Philippines: Downsiders vs. Optimists

Science
The Mystery of Whales

Sports
Tigers and Padres

News Media
Westmoreland Takes on CBS (the cover)
The Vietnam Numbers War
The Media in the Dock

Business
Walter Mondale Learns a Lesson
The Case for Stripping Banks
No Chips Off the Old Block
Guess? What's Selling?

Photography
Two Faces of Arbus

Books
"Home Before Dark," by Susan Cheever
"The Fateful Alliance," by George F. Kennan
"Half Moon Street," by Paul Theroux

Music
Montreal's Wonder Worker

Movies
Bill Murray: Saturday Night Goes Saintly
The Ice-Cream Wars
Once in a Lifetime

Health
Shunning Caffeinated Coffee

Medicine
AIDS: The Saliva Scare

Theater
Much Ado about Derek Jacobi
Kipling Courageous
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"

Other Departments
Letters
Update
Periscope
Newsmakers
Transition

The Columnists
My Turn: Larry J. Crockett - My Buttoned-Down Students
Robert J. Samuelson - The Politics of Escapism
George F. Will - The Candidates at Bay

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Citation: Newsweek, 1759Serial395739. No Date, Barry & Margaret Zorthian Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1759Serial395739, Accessed 28 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 1759Serial395739, Barry & Margaret Zorthian Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

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