ISSUE DATE: JANUARY 10, 1983; Vol. 121, No. 2

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COVER: THE DEBT BOMB. The worldwide peril of Go-Go- lending. Cover: Illustration by Bohdan Osyczka.

THE DEBT BOMB: As developing countries and East-bloc nations find it difficult to repay their vast $706 billion debt, the financial crisis sparked by Poland. Mexico and Brazil refuses to go away. See ECONOMY & BUSINESS.

WORLD: After three years of war, the Soviets remain bogged down in Afghanistan. China's message to Moscow. Israel and Lebanon begin talks. Getting along in Czechoslovakia. The Caribbean: poverty in paradise.

REBUILDING AMERICA: A symbolic start is made on upgrading the nation's deteriorating roads, bridges, and water and sewer systems as President Reagan signs a bill to increase the gas tax. But it is only a start. See NATION.

AMERICAN SCENE: In New York. a fulltime debutante stays up late and sings, making a splash, like society girls of a generation ago.

NATION: How to respond to Andropov's missile offer? Rioting erupts in Miami. A Missouri town faces a dioxin scare.

ENVIRONMENT: Sarah, a 2,300-ton mechanical monster, is carving out a 220- mile canal in the Sudan. Warnings about solar power.

VIDEO: The epochal London and Broadway staging of Nicholas Nickleby comes to the home screen, diminished but still dazzling.

SHOW BUSINESS There is plenty to cheer in Kate Nelli- gan's performance in David Hare's Plenty, which opens on Broadway this week.

LIVING Two silky, elaborate museum shows in New York City make the case for fashion historical re- creation and fine art, ART: A delectable show in London reaffirms Anthony van Dyck as a as master of the English tradition of formal portraiture.

BOOKS: Jn bestselling novels. war reportage and even sci-fi, some talented women writers are creating a post-feminist literature.

SEXES: Classified love ads are blossoming in mainstream journals, adding a heady new wrinkie to the mating game.

EDUCATION: In Michigan, private Christian schools win the right to choose teachers and curriculums free from state requirements.

ESSAY: As the recession goes on and on, the cry for protectionism gets louder and louder. Does the idea make sense?.

Letters. Science. People. Cinema. Medicine. Milestones. Press.
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