ISSUE DATE: JUNE 6, 1988, VOLUME CXI, NO. 23

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COVER: RONALD REAGAN in MOSCOW.

TOP OF THE WEEK [Major Top Stories]:
REAGAN in MOSCOW: Meeting Mikhail Gorbachev at the summit for the fourth time, Ronald Reagan completes a remarkable change of ideological course. After years of bashing the "evil empire," president now considers Gorbachev a friend with whom he can do business on arms control and other issues. As the summit begins, a comnanion article profiles the Moscow Reagan won't see: the all-powerful center of Soviet life and the crucial testing ground for Gorbachev's controversial attempt to reform the Soviet system. Finally, two former secretaries of state, Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance, look beyond the summit with a jointly written call for reviving the tradition of bipartisanship in foreign policy. Special Report: Page 16.

THE SPELLING CONUNDRUM: We all know somebody like this: smart as can be, except he can't spell. What's the problem? Science thinks the answer may be an elusive developmental disability, somewhat akin to dyslexia and even harder to isolate. Language reformers blame English itself: the fault isn't in our genes but in our words. While the mystery continues, computer software that finds and corrects spelling errors may solve the problem for all of us. Until that miraculous day, let's be careful out there. Mistakes creep in everywhere. Society: Page 52.

PANAMA MESS After months of intense economic and diplomatic pressure, the Reagan administration's campaign to unseat Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega ended in abject failure last week-and the consequences for U.S. policy, as well as for Panama itself, are potentially grave. Critics said U.S. policy had been marred by vacillation and that Washington should never have negotiated with an indicted drug trafficker. National Affairs: Page 36.

BACK ON TOP: Famed and infamous, Fred Silverman is the only man to have run the programming divisions at all three networks. Then he lost his touch, got fired and had to start over as a lowly producer obliged to peddle shows to former adversaries. But with the help of old stars (like WILLIAM CONRAD, below) and a new attitude, Silverman is back in the limelight. You might say he's TV's Richard Nixon. Lifestyle: Page 60.

[FULL NEWSWEEK LISTINGS]:
SPECIAL REPORT:
Reagan in Moscow.
The city Reagan won't see.
Co-op dining a la perestroika.
Riverboats and sables.
Kitsch for kopeks.
An agenda for the next.
president, by Henry.
Kissinger and Cyrus Vance.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
The Noriega debacle.
Defining The Duke.
Rule by "permanent Congress".
Acting up to fight AIDS.
A $5.3 billion nuclear waste.

BUSINESS:
The Springfield "miracle".
Doing good and doing well.
Butlers, limos and labor pains.
Kids and pools.
Jane Bryant Quinn.

SOCIETY:
Ideas: Spelling it out.
Medicine: Birth control (cont'd).
A key piece of the autism puzzle.
Education: The graying of the campus.
Justice: Time to outlaw racial slurs?.

LIFESTYLE:
Television: Return of a network reject.
A premature death.
for the dramedy.
Design: The king of splash.
Sports: Just a passing fancy.
Elvis's ultimate comeback.
Trends: The worst of everything.

THE ARTS:
Entertainment: The racial gauntlet.
Books: Carver's stories.
Portrait of a raging bull.
Movies: Corporate man-child.
A funny, fond chiller.

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