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Publication: December 14, 1981

General Note: National Affairs
The Economy: Sliding Deeper
Libya's Hit Squad
The Dick Allen Show
Reagan Gives the CIA a Looser Leash
A Budget Compromise
The Death of a Star

International
Mideast: A Controversial "Alliance"
Syria: Slaughter in Damascus
Egypt: Sadat's Unrepentant Killers
Poland: A Bloodless Show of Force
Back to the Arms Talks
Soviet Union: Sakharov's Hunger Strike
Nicaragua's Military Buildup

Special Report
What Vietnam Did to Us (the cover)
An American Combat Unit Relives the War and its Aftermath

Television
"Today's" New Mr. Natural

Books
An All-American Larder of Cookbooks
"The Age of Wonders," by Aharon Appelfeld
"A Better Class of Person," By John Osborne

Education
Going to School at Home: The Louisiana Experiment
A Four-Day School Week

Recordings
A Holiday Offering

Science
The Energy of Locomotion

Medicine
Fighting Cancer with Carrots

Movies
"Buddy Buddy": Some Like it Not
"Whose Life Is IT Anyway?": Death Wish

Business
Can Detroit Survive?
The Marathon Marathon
The Light-Wine Blitz

Music
A Stravinsky Triple Bill

Sports
Isiah Thomas: Hot as a Piston

Other Departments
Letters
Update
Periscope
Newsmakers
Transition

The Columnists
My Turn: Carolyn Kane - Thinking: A Neglected Art
Meg Greenfield - Wanted: A Sleaze Bank

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Citation: Newsweek, 2477Serial598905. No Date, John R. Cox Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=2477Serial598905, Accessed 28 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 2477Serial598905, John R. Cox Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

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