ISSUE DATE: May 28, 1979; Volume XCIII, No. 22

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COVER: Teddy Kennedy comes on strong. Inside Coppola's Vietnam Movie.

TOP OF THE WEEK:
COVER: TEDDY COMES ON STRONG: In the same Senate hall where his brothers began their quests for the White House, Sen. Edward Kennedy laid down what could be the first plank in his own Presidential platform: a cradle-to-grave health-insurance package for all. His proposal snatched the initiative from Jimmy Carter's own gestating health-care program and set off fresh speculation that Kennedy may challenge a President of his own party in 1980. NEWSWEEK'S cover report includes an examination of why health-care costs are ballooning and what the contending insurance plans would do about it; interviews with Kennedy and HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano, the protagonists in the coming debate--and a look at the subsurface political currents that Kennedy's own people think may force him to run, whether he wants to or not. Cover: Photo by Ken Regan-- Camera 5. (Photo credits are on page 6.).

POP GO THE SODAS: America's $12 billion soft-drink industry is swinging into its thirsty season with the biggest flood of new products since diet-soda days. Soda makers hope their splash of sporty, fruit-flavored brews will tempt new palates and fatten market shares.

THE CICADAS ARE SWARMING: They make a fearful noise, but it is only a love song. The red-eyed, 1oe-inch-long insects called periodical cicadas (above) have lived underground for seventeen years before emerging. Because they will die after about a month in the sun, they are in a hurry to mate. This year's brood is swarming up the Eastern Seaboard by the tens of millions. In the next few years, their cousins will turn up throughout the eastern U.S.

TWO FACES OF RUSSIAN ART: The Soviet Union has sent two quite different collections of masterpieces to U.S. museums this month. New York's Metropolitan Museum is showing a dazzling array of Russian icons, paintings (at right, "Savior of the Fiery Eye"), crowns, swords, embroidery and other precious objects from the halls of the Kremlin. And the National Gallery in Washington offers a rare glimpse of eleven Italian renaissance paintings, including a Leonardo, from the Hermitage in Leningrad. Together, they present two sides of the Russian artistic soul--its affection for the East and its admiration for the West.

'APOCALYPSE' Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam movie, "APOCALYPSE NOW," will not be released until August, but he exhibited it at the Cannes Film Festival last week. It follows Martin Sheen (left) on a harrowing up-river man-hunt for renegade officer Marion Brando.

INSIDE VIETNAM: Four years after their capture of Saigon, Vietnam's leaders face a stalled economy, the loss of thousands of skilled workers and the costly consequences of the war with China. Senior Editor Arnaud de Borchgrave reports on the deep-rooted crisis he found during a recent week-long visit to Hanoi.

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
How bad the gas crunch?.
Teddy Kennedy comes on strong (the cover).
The debate over health care.
Interviews with Kennedy and HEW Secretary Califano.
A $10.5 million award for a plutonium victim.
Who's worth what?.
Alaska: saving the last frontier.
A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979.
INTERNATIONAL:
Rhodesia's new allies.
Britain: how far right with Maggie Thatcher?.
The Colombian caper.
Egypt pays the price of peace.
A Soviet view on SALT II.
Inside Vietnam.
Trade: to have and to have not.
SCIENCE: The cicadas' seventeen-year itch; Green polar bears?.
TELEVISION: NBC's brave fall forecast.
BUSINESS:
Those holiday jitters.
A threat to diesels.
An energy saver from Exxon.
The Loeb Rhoades-Shearson merger.
Back to the China trade.
The great soda war.
ART: Russia's dazzling art in the U.S.
MUSIC: The sound of France at the Kennedy Center.
LIFE/STYLE: Aiding children of alcoholics.
MEDICINE: Too many physical exams?.
BOOKS:
"Sophie's Choice," by William Styron.
Two volumes on muckraking.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Bidding up print prices.
EDUCATION: The row over high-school competency exams.
JUSTICE: Suing over sex bias in education.
MOVIES:
"Apocalypse Now": the ultimate death trip.
"Alien": a super scifi thriller.
THEATER: "Getting Out": superb.
THE COLUMNISTS:
My Turn: Fred Emery.
Paul A. Samuelson.
George F. Will.
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