ISSUE DATE: March 17, 1969; Vol LXXIII, No 11

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TOP OF THE WEEK:
COVER: THE SICK, SICK CITIES: Clogged with traffic, choking on polluted air, riven by racial hostility and plagued by an epidemic of street crime, America's cities are in a desperate fight for survival. Over the years, Newsweek has been reporting the agonies o' the cities. This week, the magazine introduces a regular section on The Cities to focus on this major running story more effectively and in greater depth. For the occasion, Newsweek correspondents around the country have been casting a fresh eye during the past two months on the whole urban plight--talking with scores of mayors and other city officials, experts on urban developments and problems in both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations top urbanists at universities and foundations and hundreds of run-of-the-sidewalk city dwellers. Sounding the theme of the department--and of this week's three-part presentation--Newsweek's National Affairs editor, Edward Kosner, in charge of launching the new section, writes on the crisis of confidence in the cities and the reasons why many of the best men on the urban frontier are pessimistic. The quality of the city dweller's life is surveyed by General Editor Kenneth Auchincloss from bureau files and reporting by Associate Editor G. Bruce Porter and Senior Editorial Assistant Lucy Howard. And General Editor Lawrence S. Martz analyzes the Nixon Administration' cautious but complex plans to cope with the urban crisis. (Newsweek cover photo by Dan McCoy--Black Star.)

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
vietnam: seeking an appropriate response.
President Nixon's new-look European policy.
Decision on Sentinel: a go-ahead?.
The twelve-minute tab on Justice.
Crackdown on Army deserters.
Prisons: crime, not correction.
Sirhan Sirhan on the stand.
The Cape Cod dunes murders.
THE CITIES:
The sick, sick cities (the cover).
The citizens' lot.
What Nixon plans to do about urban ills.
INTERNATIONAL:
The Berlin mini-crisis, and a new President for West Germany.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward".
The Moscow-Peking shooting war.
Chile: a drift toward the right.
France: why the anti-Pompidou whispers?.
Golda Meir, Israel's new Prime Minister.
Standoff in Syria's power struggle.
SCIENCE AND SPACE:
Apollo 9's Spider shows its stuff.
An insider wins NASA's top job.
SPORTS: Ted Williams takes over the Senators.
Top Knight--top three-year-old.
TV-RADIO: The FCC's aggressive new tack.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
How Detroit's new cars shape up (Spotlight on Business).
Gold and de Gaulle.
Wall Street: lo, the utilities.
The Atlantic Richfield-Sinclair marriage, divorce Style.
LIFE AND LEISURE: Playing on company time. A breezy new Paris guidebook.
MEDICINE:
Alcoholic France; Abortions for all?.
PRESS: Jim Garrison and the press.
EDUCATION: The making of a campus radical; Peace Corps veterans on the home front.
RELIGION: Japan's hidden Christians.
THE COLUMNISTS:
Kenneth Crawford--Hechler's Bridge.
Henry C. Wallich--The Alliance.
Stewart Alsop--Can a Poor Man Get to Be President?.

THE ARTS:
MUSIC:
The New York City Opera's "Prince Igor".
Krzysztof Penderecki's "Passion".
Maxim Shostakovich on the podium.
BOOKS:
Marshall and Jean Stearns's "Jazz Dance".
Joseph Morgenstern's "World Champion".
Lady Cynthia Asquith's diaries.
Rudolph Wurlitzer's "Nog".
THEATER:
The APA's "Hamlet".
Heinar Kipphardt's "Oppenheimer".
MOVIES: The new documentarians.
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