ISSUE DATE: FEBRUARY 29, 1988; Volume CXI, No. 9

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COVER: TAX TERROR. How to survive April 15. By Jane Bryant Quinn. Cover: Illustration by Gahan Wilson.

TOP OF THE WEEK [Major Top Stories]:
SURVIVING TAX REFORM: Forget Black Monday. It's Black Friday-April 15-that could be the real day of financial panic this year. With the annual filing deadline less than 60 days away, America's taxpayers are struggling to cope with the most sweeping tax changes in 40 years. To help guide you through the current tax maze and make plans for 1988, NEWSWEEK'S Jane Bryant Quinn offers a filer's survival guide. Business: Page 40 MAKE MINE MARIACHI: Add Mexican melodies to LINDA RONSTADT's eclectic repertoire of rock, classical, pop and country. Her new Spanish-language album "Canciones de mi padre" is climbing the charts as she tours in a spectacular showcase of songs from her childhood days near the Mexican border. The Arts: Page 66. Ronstadt's Mexican look.

THE PIT-BULL POLITICS OF '88: As the candidates headed South, the wide-open 1988 presdential campaign promised to be nasty, brutish and long. Al Gore compared Richard Gephardt to Richard Nixon, Bob Dole accused George Bush of lying, and Bush staffers accused Dole and Pat Robertson of collusion. The contests promised to drag on well into the spring with the real possibility of a brokered Democratic convention. National Affairs: Page 16.

KIDNAPPED: An unarmed U.S. Marine Corps officer attached to a United Nations peacekeeping unit was kidnapped in Lebanon, apparently by pro-Iranian terrorists. It turned out that the hostage, Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, 43, had served in a sensitive Pentagon post before a security breach sent him to Lebanon. International: Page 32.

U.S. GOLD: In the battle of Brians, Boitano held off Orser to win America's first gold medal. But the agony of defeat seemed to overshadow the thrill of victory. Skier Pirmin Zurbriggen took a humbling fall, and the U.S. team seemed jinxed. LIfestyle: Page 48.

[FULL NEWSWEEK LISTINGS]:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
Pit-bull politics.
Can Robertson branch out?.
Gore's message problem.
Babbitt's farewell.
Strauss: ready to deal.
The Swaggart scandal.

INTERNATIONAL:
A prize catch in Lebanon.
The Mideast: Shultz's peace mission.
Colombia: cocaine is king.
Gorbachev and the Baltics.

BUSINESS:
The tax nightmare (the cover).
How to survive April 15, by Jane Bryant Quinn.
Don't roll back tax reform.

LIFESTYLE:
Sports: At last, American gold.
The downhill Olympics.
Food: Cooking for cash.

SOCIETY:
Family: Motherhood issues.
Justice: A case of missing testimony.
Science: How to tell if you're smart .
Medicine: What the Elephant Man really had.
Religion: How to read Paul, 2,000 years later.

THE ARTS:
Entertainment: A rocker reclaims her roots.
Books: "Krazy Kat".
Our nation's bloody birth.
"Money and Class in America".
Movies: A shock artist goes mainstream.
Music: The Met makes a Ring that fits.
Photography: Walk on the wild side.

DEPARTMENTS:
Periscope.
Update.
My Turn: Jack G. Shaheen.
The Mail.
Perspectives.
Newsmakers.
Transition.
George F. Will.
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