ISSUE DATE: March 12, 1979; Volume XCIII, No. 11

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TOP OF THE WEEK:
COVER: MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE: FRONTIERS IN PHYSICS: Will the universe ever end? Does anything exist until it is observed? These are the kinds of cosmic questions that physicists ask--and recently they have been finding answers with startling speed. Much of what physicists know about the universe, they know because of the seminal thoughts of Albert Einstein, whose centennial is being celebrated this month. With principal reporting and writing by Science editor Peter Gwynne andS enior Editorial Assistant Sharon Begley, Newsweek explores the frontiers of physics today in eleven p ages of text, drawings and photos. (Newsweek cover illustration by Ed Scarisbrick; cover lettering by Stanislaw Fernandes.).

PRICEY OIL: The fallout from Iran's crisis spread further last week. Oil-producing nations hiked prices to take advantage of tight world sup p lies. The industrialized West responded with a plan to cut consumption. Carter aides worked on measures for conservation. And the world nervously awaited OPEC's next move.

COLD BLOOD: Broadway's most unlikely musical in years stars Len Cariou (left) as a barber who cuts up his customers and Angela Lansbury as a lady who makes them into meat pies. Composed by Stephen Sondheim and directed by Harold Prince, "SWEENEY TODD" is a near-operatic extravaganza that goes for the jugular and not the heart.

THE INDOCHINA WAR: Chinese invaders captured the Vietnamese border town of Lang Son, but along most of the battleline with Vietnam the war settled into an artillery duel. The Vietnamese spurned China's offer of negotiations, but there were reports Peking was considering a cease-fire. In companion stories, Larry Martz (right) reports from Peking on the first stirrings of a Chinese antiwar movement and the business-as-usual visit of U.S. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, who toured his boyhood home in Shanghai. And after a trip through China, Andrew Nagorski (left) argues that the Chinese invasion raises doubts about whether the West can rely on Peking as a predictable ally.

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
At the summit: Carter meets Begin..
The Saudi Arabian backlash.
Jimmy Carter's military option in the Mideast.
Jerry Brown comes to Washington.
Chicago: Jane Byrne beats the machine.
Coping with the Billy Factor.
Massachusetts: Governor King's travails.
The eclipse of '79.
INTERNATIONAL:
War in Indochina: Peking slows its invasion.
An antiwar movement in China.
Wishful thinking about Peking?.
di Amin's last stand?.
Iran: Prime Minister Bazargan's complaint.
U.S. intelligence losses in Iran.
Spain: a Suarez victory at the polls.
West Germany: Schmidt goes his own way.

SCIENCE:
Probing the mysteries of the universe (the cover).
Gravity: theoretical twists and turns.
Cosmology: how will the universe end?.
Glimpses of a unified field theory.
Causality--or a cosmic game of chance?.
Albert Einstein, modern Prometheus.
A colleague's appraisal of "the outsider".

BUSINESS:
Feeling the oil-shortage pinch.
Cutting a trade deal with China.
Mike Blumenthal's nostalgic Shanghai visit.
Resorts International's Atlantic City win.
Advertising: Chrysler's big switch.
NEWS MEDIA: Tracking The New Yorker's mystery chef; National Public Radio to the fore.
MEDICINE: Rethinking the saccharin ban; A rare chance to compare identical twins.
EDUCATION: Dartmouth fraternities: "Clean up or clear out".
THE COLUMNISTS:
My Turn: Sidney Harman.
Jane Bryant Quinn.
Meg Greenfield.

THE ARTS:
MUSIC: The Paris Opera's compteat "Lulu".
MOVIES:
"The Passage": low-grade adventure package.
"Real Life": an insider's unrealistic view.
'Despair": triple play without a ball.
BOOKS: Joseph HelIer's "Good as Gold".
"Reversals," by Eileen Simpson.
"The Blackheath Poisonings," by Julian Symons.
Daniel Lang's "Germans Remember".
THEATER:
"Sweeney Todd": brilliance and cold blood.
"On Golden Pond": ripeness without drama.
"Taken in Marriage": rising above the author.
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