ON THE COVER 106
Teaming up for a TV movie (and their very first screen smooch ever), old friends Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Wagner laugh a lot as they tell how each supported the other through four decades of Hollywood highs and lows
UP FRONT 38
The bombers of Paris are demanding the release of suspected master terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
Paul Simon travels to South Africa and returns with a hit LP, Graceland
Gerald Ford hosts a humor conference where most of the jokes are on him
Prosecuting John Landis and the Twilight Zone defendants, Lea (Dragon Lady) D'Agostino faces seven male attorneys in the hottest fight of her career
TUBE 53
He's only 3'11", but CBS' Wizard, David Rappaport, fully intends to overshadow the competition
PAGES 57
What really happened to KAL Flight 007? Ace reporter Seymour Hersh investigates the tragic shoot-down of a civilian airliner by a Soviet fighter
CRITTERS 64
A Cleveland store has gone completely to the dogs, and no one is happier about it than owner Roger Perry
HOST 67
As PBS' funky chronicler of the Karpov-Kasparov world chess championship match, Shelby Lyman has all the right moves
STYLE 79
Coming out from behind the Calvin Klein label, designer Zack Carr sets up shop in Italy and ships home a smash collection
CONTROVERSY 85
A risky experiment, abruptly canceled after 16 deaths, nevertheless provides hope for AIDS victims—a new drug called AZT
TO THE TOP 90
Treat Williams' ex, Dana Delany, sashays into Tom Selleck's Magnum
TRENDS 92
Turning their backs on custom, Valentino, Hermès and others create the designer backpack
ADVENTURE 95
Ace climber David Breashears scampers atop the world's highest peaks to get the best camera angle
WINNERS 105
If Woody Allen made Gone With the Wind, it might resemble Sherman's March—Ross McElwee's filmed search for love in the South
SCREEN 112
Amadeus' F. Murray Abraham again plays the villain, this time with Sean Connery in a medieval whodunit, The Name of the Rose
JOURNEY 114
Norway's Ragnar Thorseth goes Leif Eriksson one better, circumnavigating the globe in a Viking ship
BIO 119
Environmentalist and musician Paul Winter plays pied piper to pilgrims
ARTS 129
With his new wave score, Anthony Davis' X (as in Malcolm X) may be America's first major opera by a black composer
ON THE MOVE 133
Nightwatch's Charlie Rose has temporarily abandoned America's insomniacs to be the last captain aboard the sinking CBS Morning News
INTRODUCING... 139
Thanks to a clever commercial, teenage jeans model Cheryl Pollak finds fame—and even gets to ride in a limo
OVER THERE 140
New coifs for Di and Fergie, Wills gets sheepish, and Maggie is right on target
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 13
TAKE ONE 37
STAR TRACKS 61
LOOKOUT 73
CHATTER 142
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