| Correspondents' Correspondence | 3 |
| Thawing the U.S.-Soviet Chill | 6 |
| HOPKINS, MARK | |
| The Challenge to Liberalism | 8 |
| MOYNIHAN, DANIEL PATRICK | |
| Crime and the Race for Mayor in New York | 10 |
| GERSHOWITZ, JOEL M. | |
| Health vs. the Environment | 12 |
| GERRARD, MICHAEL | |
| Ghost Stories | 14 |
| MATHEWSON, RUTH | |
| An Absence of Influences | 16 |
| KING, RICHARD H. | |
| Bismarck's Private Advisor | 17 |
| KELMAN, STEVEN | |
| Nixon and Frost Marvelous! | 19 |
| KITMAN, MARVIN | |
| Don't Play it Again, Woody | 22 |
| ASAHINA, ROBERT | |
| Grand and not so Grand Opera | 24 |
| GUREWITSCH, M. ANATOLE | |
| Dear Editor | 26 |
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