No. 19, February 1987
Index
- "Do you want any more secret documents put in the safe, Mr. ambassador? "No, Ivan, that's all for tonight." (U.S. marine and espionage)
- AFL-CIO is Spanish for union busting; how the U.S. and big labor fight communism by opposing popular unions and setting up unpopular ones.
- Alchemists of revolution: terrorism in the modern world.
- Battered justice.
- Ben Cohen: one who took a different path.
- Beware of Republicans bearing voting rights suits.
- Beyond national borders: reflections on Japan and the world.
- Catastrophic insurance for all.
- Chalk one up for the permanent government; the bureaucracy took on Reagan and big oil - and won.
- Challenger: a major malfunction.
- Charming her way to the White House; air travel stinks, auto safety is a joke - and Washington still loves Liddy Dole.
- Democracy is in the streets: from Port Huron to the siege of Chicago.
- Elliott Abrams: the teflon assistant secretary.
- Empire.
- Escape of the guilty: a trial judge speaks out against crime.
- Exile within: the schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945.
- Eyes on the lies; how black leaders and cigarette companies have turned indoor smoking into a civil rights issue.
- Fast forward: Hollywood, the Japanese, and the onslaught of the VCR.
- Federalism: the founders' design.
- First ladies.
- From the people who brought you the twinkie defense; the rise of the expert witness industry.
- Futures shock.
- G.I.-the American soldier in World War II.
- Gandhi's girls.
- George Marshall: statesman, 1945-1959.
- George Shultz, wimp.
- Green thumbs: the PiK and Roll and other scams from the farm belt; the ingenious ways farmers milk government subsidy programs.
- Harry Hopkins, ally of the poor and defender of democracy.
- Hold on, Mr. President!
- Hot chain nixes wingo, buscapades - nabs Pulitzers, big bucks; Knight-Ridder show that newspaper chains can be profitable - and good.
- Hot money and the politics of debt.
- How the government cooks the books; the budget deficit is bigger than you think.
- How the homeless bought a Rolls for Cornelius Pitts.
- Impact: how the press affects federal policy making.
- Keeper of the rules: Howard W. Smith of Virginia.
- Let's put America back to work.
- Making public policy: a hopeful view of American government.
- Man of the house: the life and political memoirs of speaker Tip O'Neill.
- Mission to Tehran.
- Moonie journalism; at the Washington Times, it's better than you might think.
- Mortal splendor, the American empire in transition.
- National geographic: behind America's lens on the world.
- One bugle, no drums: the marines at Chosin Reservoir.
- Perfect pieces.
- Power of attorney.
- Prescription for disaster.
- Rayburn: a biography.
- Reagan's America: innocents at home.
- Real rape.
- Secrecy and power: the life of J. Edgar Hoover.
- Showdown at Gucci Gulch.
- Steering the elephant: how Washington works.
- Submarine warfare today and tomorrow.
- Tales from the top; inside the White House with eight former presidential aides.
- Tales of new America.
- The best and the worst of American unions.
- The brutality of nations.
- The Burger years: rights and wrongs in the Supreme Court, 1969-1986.
- The case against the Air Force.
- The closing of the American mind.
- The dark secret of the black budget.
- The door SDI won't shut.
- The first Chrysler bail-out; the M-1 tank.
- The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.
- The freest enterprise.
- The harvest of sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine.
- The hospital without patients; a triumph of her majesty's civil service.
- The jaguar's smile: a Nicaraguan journey.
- The Japanese educational challenge.
- The Kissinger covenant and other reasons Israel is in trouble.
- The new season: a spectator's guide to the 1988 election.
- The NRA is right; but we still need to ban handguns.
- The Paper. The life and death of the New York Herald Tribune.
- The personal vote: constituency service and electoral independence.
- The personnel problem.
- The powers that shouldn't be; five Washington insiders the next Democratic president shouldn't hire.
- The reckoning.
- The sinking of a supercarrier.
- The stock analysts; the Wall Streeters who tell you when and what to buy and sell.
- The story that still nags at me.
- The third generation: young conservative leaders look to the future.
- The turtles of Mona Island.
- The U.S. Senate: paralysis or a search for consensus?
- The wise men.
- The world and Richard Nixon.
- Thunder in America: the improbable campaign of Jesse Jackson.
- Tommy the Cork; the secret world of Washington's first modern lobbyist.
- Waltzing with a dictator: the Marcoses and the making the foreign policy.
- Warning: the Surgeon General may be good for your health.
- Wharton by the sea; the federal government spends millions to train shipping executives at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
- What did Noah do with the manure? And other burning questions of creation science.
- Whip me, beat me and while you're at it cancel my N.O.W. membership.
- Work, health, and income among the elderly.
- Would you believe ... Iranian moderates?
- You think the NSC is screwed up? Take a look at Washington's worst run program.