| Correspondents' Correspondence Inviting Trouble | 3 |
| COHEN, RICHARD | |
| Talking with Beirut's Middle-Class Palestinians | 4 |
| RUBIN, TRUDY | |
| Ford vs. the New Congress | 7 |
| GORDON, WALTER R | |
| Text of Hammerman Letter and List of Gifts and Loans | 9 |
| TRILLIN, CALVIN | |
| The Utilities Squeeze | 10 |
| LAWRENCE, STEVE | |
| Lovers and Losers | 13 |
| BELL, PEARL K | |
| Notes of an Indignant Diarist | 15 |
| HOTTELET, RICHARD C | |
| A Marker in Blood | 16 |
| HANSER, RICHARD | |
| Remembering the Nightmare | 18 |
| CAVELL, MARCIA | |
| 'Tis the Season to be Married | 20 |
| KITMAN, MARVIN | |
| Dear Editor | 23 |
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