ISSUE DATE: June 28, 1976; Vol. LXXXVII, No. 26

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COVER: BASEBALL's MONEY MADNESS. VIDA BLUE.

TOP OF THE WEEK:
COVER STORY: MONEY MADNESS: Curmudgeonly Charles 0. Finley was dealing wholesale, selling three of Oakland's finest ballplayers to New York and Boston for huge sums. But commissioner Bowie Kuhn disapproved the deals. Suddenly baseball was in turmoil, and money madness held sway throughout professional sports. (Newsweek cover by Robert P. Van Nutt.).

HUNTING VOTES: Gerald Ford stayed home to ride herd on the Lebanon crisis, but his wife, Betty, went to Iowa in his place and Ford barely edged Reagan in the quest for GOP delegates there. A companion story assesses which GOP candidate would run best against Jimmy Carter. Carter himself was resting by the sea, pondering his fall campaign plans, while his party wrote a platform tailored closely to his wishes. And his last rival, California's Jerry Brown, finally gave up.

SOWETO EXPLODES: The police opened fire, and the crowd erupted--and so, in a black township near Johannesburg, the worst race riots in South Africa's bitter history began. With more than 100 dead, the government called for more force to suppress the rising "at all costs." But Black Africa was seething, and South Africa seemed at a turning point. In a Newsweek interview, author Alan Paton discusses the anguish of his beloved country.

TAX HAVENS: Billions of U.S. dollars pass through offshore tax havens every year, and the IRS is convinced that much of that traffic is downright illegal. A major investigation of the tax havens and how they work is now under way, and a Newsweek team reports that thousands of U.S. investors may have to pay back taxes--while some of their more creative lawyers may wind up in jail.

MURDER IN LEBANON: As suddenly and senselessly as anything else in Lebanon's endless civil war, the killing reached America: U.S. Ambassador Francis Edward Merloy Jr. and two others were murdered on their way to a meeting with the new Lebanese President-elect. Three suspects were seized, but the attack remained a mystery. After the bodies were found on desolate "Dead Man's Beach," the U.S. urged the 1,400 Americans still living in Lebanon to pull out. Only a few of them elected to go, and when new fighting made evacuation by land too risky, an unarmed U.S. Navy vessel was sent in to the rescue.

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
The great delegate chase.
Who would run best against Carter?.
Carter rests--and plans.
Key Democratic platform planks.
Exit Jerry Brown--at last.
More Capitol capers.
Debate over decoys.
A summer of discontent?.
New York City: another turn of the screw.
Terrorism by mail.
INTERNATIONAL:
South Africa's worst race riots.
A talk with Alan Paton.
Lebanon: murder of the U.S. amba ador.
Angola's trial of the mercenaries.
The twilight of Mao Tse-tung.
West Germany's big spy roundup.
TELEVISION: New twists in video pitchmanship.
BUSINESS:
The defiant Teamsters.
Investigating offshore tax havens.
Xerox bows to E.B. White.
Women's on-the-job health hazards.
Ralph Nader after ten years.
Cutting home-mortgage costs.
ENTERTAINMENT: Diana Ross's new career.
SPORTS: Baseball's money madness (the cover).
SCIENCE: An element called Bicentennium.
NEWS MEDIA: The keyhole press corps.
THE COLUMNISTS: My Turn: David S. Saxon. Paul A. Samueleon. Georg. F. Will.

THE ARTS:
MUSIC: Summer music festivals for one and all.
BOOKS:
Ring Lardner Jr.'s family memoir.
"Big Bill Tilden," by Frank Deford.
Marguerite Yourcenar's "The Abyss".
MOVIES:
Altman's "Buffalo Bill": stuff of heroes.
"Harry and Walter': lightweight fun.
"The Tenant": private demons.
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