CONTENTS
CLOSE-UP
EDUCATION
Crisis In
The Kremlin
Back
To School
AMY J. MEHLER
JAMES D. BESSER
IRA RIFKIN
HELEN DAVIS
NATAN SHARANSKY
As summer ends and school
approaches, kids, parents
and teachers prepare for
the new academic year.
Reactions to the coup
and counter moves
in the Soviet Union.
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OPINION
7
Today's issues, later
forgotten, won't disappear.
UP FRONT
11
Ten Tips for the charity
dinner and party circuit.
DETROIT
14
• Maccabi athletes do well
at Cleveland regional
• Sinai Hospital institutes
188 staff layoffs.
BACKGROUND
37
Terrorist Abu Nidal used
the BCCI bank to advantage.
BUSINESS
72
Local businesses follow
the population shifts.
ENTERTAINMENT
77
Parlaying a childhood love
of theater into a career.
DEPARTMENTS
RELIGION
A Celebration
RONELLE GRIER
This bat mitzvah is more
than the normal rite.
43
FOR WOMEN
Sabta Frieda
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
A Detroiter makes her mark
on the Israeli army.
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Editorial
Community
Synagogues
Fine Arts
Travel
Food
Tradition
Purely Commentary
Engagements
Births
Single Life
For Seniors
Here's To
Classified Ads
Obituaries
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