TITLE: NEWSWEEK magazine
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ISSUE DATE: August 31, 1981, Volume XCVIII, No. 9
CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

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COVER: When Doctors Play God. The Ethics of Life and Death Decisions. Cover: Illustration by Kinuko Craft.

TOP OF THE WEEK:
WHEN DOCTORS PLAY GOD: Doctors once could swear to the Hippocratic oath with clear consciences: their sole duty was to save patients' lives. Now they have the drugs and the machinery to prolong lives they know might not be worth living. But who should decide when to stop treatment? Doctors? Patients? Families? Judges? Modern medicine is troubled by these and other quandaries of what it calls "bioethics"--and there unfortunately are no easy answers.

TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI: After months of sparring, the United States took its challenge to Muammar Kaddafi into the Libyan leader's neighborhood. Ignoring Libya's territorial claim to the Gulf of Sidra, U.S. warships from the Sixth Fleet steamed in for naval exercises. When two Soviet-built Libyan fighter-bombers maneuvered for a fight and fired a missile, two F-14 Tomcats (above) blew them out of the sky. The showdown served as a message to the world, Reagan said, that "America has the muscle to back up its word.".

THE CLEANSING SEAS: It wasn't long ago that people were talking about the world's oceans being poisoned by pollution. Recent studies by marine biologists suggest, however, that the seas around us and their creatures have ingenious ways of purging themselves of man's effluents. The danger from wanton humans is by no means over, but it may be receding.

GOING ABSTRACT: What made modern painters turn from realism to abstraction? The answer often has more to do with personality than with art, and it is illuminated by current shows of two great modernists, Mondrian and Kandinsky. (At left, an early Mondrian.).

THE MONEY CRUNCH: Interest rates are at their highest levels since the Great Depression, and everyone from auto dealers (right) to Uncle Sam is feeling the pain. Even Ronald Reagan's strongest supporters worry that high interest could throw the economy into recession.

[FULL NEWSWEEK LISTINGS]:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:.
The shoot-out with Libya Washington's confrontation course.
Reagan's bouts with the budget.
The MX--still up in the air.
Air traffic picks up.
Bridgeport: stinging the stingers.
Atlantic City craps out.
INTERNATIONAL:.
Can the West bail out Poland?.
Problems in the coal mines.
A trek inside Afghanistan.
South Africa's squatters.
The U.N.'s plight in Lebanon.
Britain: music to riot by.
MOVIES:.
Body Heat": hot stuff.
First Monday in October": High Court sitcom.
JUSTICE: Robert Bork, conservative on the rise.
BUSINESS:.
Danger signs on interest rates OPEC in disarray.
What's "new" at supermarkets.
The city greenmarkets.
Delhi oil--still a bridesmaid.
Houston's master builder.
NEWS MEDIA: TV's evening-news war. Reprieve in Philadelphia.
MEDICINE:.
When doctors play God (the cover.
Five cases--what would you do?.
The persisting risks of the Pill.
THEATER:.
Othello": a duel between Jones and Plummer.
My Fair Lady": a masterpiece revived.
BOOKS:.
Donald Woods's "Asking for Trouble.
The Care of Time," by Eric Ambler.
Stephen King's "Cujo.
LIFE/STYLE: The "Papers" phenomenon.
ENTERTAINMENT: Ballads by Deane and Frishberg.
ART: Two great modernists: Mondrian and Kandinsky.
SCIENCE: The resilient seas around us.
OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
Letters.
Update.
Periscope.
Transition.
Newsmakers.
THE COLUMNISTS.
My Turn: Landon Butler.
Milton Friedman.
George F. Will.


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