ISSUE DATE: SEPTEMBER 4, 1989; Volume CXIV, No. 10

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COVER: The Blue Planet: A Close Encounter with NEPTUNE. Columbia's Drug Wars: How far will the U. S. Go? Cover: Photo by JPL-NASA.

TOP OF THE WEEK [Major Top Stories]:
THE FANTASTIC VOYAGE TO NEPTUNE: Twelve years after its interplanetary odyssey began, the unmanned space probe Voyager 2 arrived at Neptune, the planet currently farthest from the sun. It found a turbulent place of storms as big as the Earth and careering particles forming rings as dark as midnight. For all its spectacle, though, the blue planet was nearly upstaged by its moon Triton, a mottled pink-and-blue world of craters, smooth plains and vast ice basins. Society: Page 50.

HITTING THE DRUG LORDS: The lords of cocaine declared war on Colombia last week-and George Bush moved promptly to reinforce the imperiled government of President Virgilio Barco Vargas. NEWSWEEK'S exclusive report outlines the rising stakes of the hemisphere's escalating war on drugs. National Affairs: Page 18.

EXPLAINING CATASTROPHE: Sept. 1 marks the 50th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland. In commemoration, a half dozen new books try to put the unprecedented scope and brutality of World War II into historical perspective. The Arts: Page 64.

[FULL NEWSWEEK LISTINGS]:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
Fighting Colombia's drug lords.
Send in the troops? Assessing.
U.S. military options.
Caught up in Miami's Cuban politics.
Another scandal on the Hill.
A racial killing in Brooklyn.
A violent death for Huey Newton.

INTERNATIONAL:
Collision course in the Baltics.
Eastern Europe: a role for Bush?.
Poland: the long road ahead.
Death in the African bush.
SWAPO's witch hunt.
Noriega: "He's basically won".
Out of the Cold," from the Robert S. McNamara book.

BUSINESS:
Sifting ashes on Wall Street.
Bull market: a new high, but many sit tight.
Vestron: the crash of a moviemaker.
Japan faces a brain drain.
Robert J. Samuelson.

SOCIETY:
Space: The blue planet: a close encounter with Neptune (THE COVER).
There's more to come.

LIFESTYLE:
Sports: Banning Pete Rose.
Health: Getting a grasp on asthma's grip.
Discovering a killer gene.
Fashion: The Divine Madame V.
Food: I'm cooking as fast as I can.

THE ARTS:
Books: A war to remember: looking back at the causes and horrors of combat.
In lieu of "Chatterton".
Movies: A mixed bag for Labor Day.

DEPARTMENTS:
Periscope.
My Turn, by Joseph Bourque.
Letters.
Perspectives.
Newsmakers.
Transition.
Meg Greenfield.
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