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Dec 26, 1983 Vol. 20 No. 26

Ronald Reagan's Difficult Year

December 26, 1983

Cover Story

Ronald Reagan's Difficult Year

No Way to Make It Easy With the Cold War, U.N. Resolutions and an Attack on Syria on His Hands

Pg. 20

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Table of Contents

Articles

Editor's Memo

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Debra Winger

A Hollywood Sexpot Turns Serious Actress and Scores a Success on Her Own Terms

Pg. 24

Fidel Castro

The Aging Lion of Revolution in Latin America Gets Savvy—and Pulls in His Claws

Pg. 26

Cabbage Patch Kid

Glassy of Eye and Poker of Face, This Chubby, Alien Horde Masks a Plot to Take Over the Planet

Pg. 28

Jesse Jackson

An Explosive Orator's Campaign Breeds Fusion and Fission for the Democratic Party

Pg. 30

William Gates

Dropping Out of Harvard Pays Off for a Computer Whiz Kid Who's Making Hard Cash from Software

Pg. 36

Sam Shepard

He Has It All as a Laureate of Stage and Screen: So Now What's He Want? Anonymity

Pg. 38

Chun Byung in

The Career of An 'Infallible' Pilot Ends in the Debris of Flight 007

Pg. 41

Mr. T

The Terror of the A-Team Goes to Church and Doesn't Fool Around with Some Chicks

Pg. 42

Ben Lexcen

An Impish Aussie Designer and His Magic Keel Haul America's Cup Down Under After 132 Years of U.S. Ownership

Pg. 44

Joan Rivers

Where's Johnny? Home Watching a 'Semi-Legend' Skewer Guests and Boost His Ratings

Pg. 49

Robert Mastruzzi: High School Principal

Education Takes a Critical Battering, but This Man Runs His School with Pride

Pg. 50

Eddie Murphy

It's No Joke: He Makes Folks Mad, but He's Got It Made

Pg. 52

Matthew Broderick

Oh, to Be Young and Hot in Hollywood, yet Instead of Acting Up the Leader of the Pack Is Buttoned-Down

Pg. 57

Barbara McClintock

After Six Decades of Research, the Shy Discoverer of Biology's 'Jumping Genes' Wins Her Nobel

Pg. 58

Harvey Fierstein

Brooklyn's Funny Boy Takes Broadway on a Gay Mad Whirl

Pg. 60

Philip Johnson

The Grand Bold Man of Architecture Comes Full Circle, Designing the Downfall of His Own Glass Box

Pg. 62

Vanessa Williams

A Thorny Crown Goes with the Job of Being the First Black Miss America

Pg. 64

Richard Chamberlain

He Gets No Awards from His Peers, but the Public Hails the King of the Miniseries

Pg. 70

Michael Jackson

Thanks to a Thriller Album, the Former Small Fry of the Jacksons Becomes the Biggest Star in Pop Music

Pg. 73

Konrad Kujau

A Nazi-Obsessed Amateur Forger Fakes the Führer's Diaries and Nearly Fools the World

Pg. 76

Alice Walker

Letters to God Are Postmarked with a Pulitzer

Pg. 85

Alfred Hitchcock

Five Buried Treasures from the Master of Suspense Prove to Be the Movie Event of '83

Pg. 88

Jennifer Beals

Dazzling Looks and a Ripped Wardrobe Turn a Dancing Yalie into a Flashy Star

Pg. 90

A Random Roll Call, with Appropriate Honors, of Those Who Blew It in the Past Year

Pg. 92

Tom Peters and Bob Waterman Searched for Excellence and Created a Business Bible

Pg. 96

Sex, Drugs and Pelicans—Take II

What Happened Next: a Year-End Update on the Fates of the Famous

Pg. 98

Public Joy, Private Sorrow: a Tragic Year for the Military Ends in Bittersweet Homecomings

Pg. 110

Coming Attractions

There's the Promise of Struttin' On-Screen, a Bagful of Best-Sellers, a Prince of a Year in Song and Twins on the Tube

Pg. 124

The High-Tech Teens of Computers Are Hacking Out a Brave—and, Frankly, Boring—New World

Pg. 142

Olympic Gold

America's Athletes Are Poised for Action at the Los Angeles Games

Pg. 149

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