ISSUE DATE: February 19, 1979; Volume XCIII, No. 8

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TOP OF THE WEEK:
COVER: THE NEW OIL CRUNCH: Suddenly, the world was on red alert for what might be a replay of the global oil crisis of 1973-74. With the Iranian shutdown posing dangers to the world economy, U.S. energy chief James Schlesinger warned of a crisis prospectively more serious" than the last crunch. Newsweek examines the new oil squeeze and U.S. plans for handling it, profiles Schlesinger and, with reporting from William J. Cook (left), explains why Jimmy Carter's trip to Mexico this week takes on a fresh urgency. (Newsweek cover photo by Jim Bartholomew -- Bart Photo.)

MAD LUDWIG: His ministers finally had him declared insane, but before they did, King Ludwig II of Bavaria went on one of the great building sprees of all time. At his whim, elaborate dream castles sprang up on German hills, grottoes were made to order and countless bits of furniture and knickknackery were constructed by Europe's best artisans. An exhibition at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum evokes the eclectic taste and magnificent obsessions of one of the nineteenth century's great eccentrics.

HEAVENLY SURPRISES: Earth's planetary neighbors keep yielding their secrets. The Voyager spacecraft has photographed Jupiter's red spot (above) more clearly than any earthbound instruments. The Pioneer probe has just returned stunning new data about the storms and land forms of Venus, Earth's closest neighbor. But astronomers, preparing or this month's eclipse of the sun, have a special problem with Earth's most important star: almost everything they thought they knew about it might turn out to be wrong.

MOTHERS' DAUGHTERS: The relationship between mother and daughter is complicated, charged with emotion and a subject many women suddenly want to explore. The best-selling book "My Mother/My Self" has spawned scores of workshops. A dozen other books and five TV films are in the works.

BACK TO "ROOTS": More than 130 million Americans watched Alex Haley's family history in Roots" two years ago. Next week, "Roots II" resumes the saga from Reconstruction through the momentous meeting of Haley (James Earl Jones, right) with the Gambian griot whose oral history supplied the final link.

INDEX:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
The new oil crunch (the cover).
Secretary Schlesinger -- man over a barrel.
Plans for coping with the pinch.
Eyes on Mexico's oil bonanza.
Mobilizing for the battle of SALT II.
Zipping Administration lips.
Chicago: the politics of snow.
Rockefeller's last hour.
The 'diamonds for investment" scam.
INTERNATIONAL:
Iran on the brink of civil war.
Mehdi Bazargan, Khomeini's engineer.
Pakistan: will Bhutto hang?.
Oman: counting the dominoes.
The Middle East: back to Camp David.
China's buildup on the Vietnamese border.
MEDICINE: Synthetic hair implants: bald men beware; Diagnosing a deadly mystery disease in Naples.
SPORTS: upsurge in women's basketball.
BUSINESS:
Farm protesters' harvest of ill will.
William F. Buckley's stock-deal blunder.
Trying to do business without bribery.
A national sales tax?.
Ron Warmoth, business psychic.
LIFE/STYLE: New insights between mothers and daughters.
JUSTICE: Congressman Flood's hung jury.
EDUCATION: Mixing oil money and academic freedom at USC.
SCIENCE: Studying the sun's eclipse; New profiles of Venus and Jupiter.
TELEVISION: "Roots II": recapturing Haley's comet.
THE COLUMNISTS:
My Turn: Ervin Laszlo.
Milton Friedman.
George F. Will.

THE ARTS:
MOVIES:
"Hardcore": neon-lit tour of the skin trade.
"Agatha": casting a spell of mystery.
ART: The mad designs of King Ludwig II.
MUSIC:
The Met's flawed new "Don Carlo".
George Rochberg's rebirth as a classicist.
BOOKS:
Frederick R. Karl's life of Joseph Conrad.
"Personal Politics," by Sara Evans.
"SS-GB: Nazi-Occupied Britain 1941," by Len Deighton.
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