ISSUE DATE: March 3 1969; Vol LXXXIII, No 9, 3/3/69

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TOP OF THE WEEK:
COVER: MR. RICHARD NIXON GOES TO EUROPE: As Richard Nixon prepared to take off for Europe, there were in- dications that this week's visit to five Western nations might soon lead to a summit meeting with the Russians. Flying with the President was his longtime confidant, William P. Rogers, a careful counselor who is just beginning to blossom as the new Secretary of State. From files both domestic and foreign, Senior Editor Dwight Martin as- sesses Mr. Nixon's plunge into personal diplomacy. And from inter- views with Rogers and others by correspondent Henry L. Trewhitt, General Editor Kenneth Auchincloss profiles Secretary Rogers (page 20). (Newsweek cover photo by Wally McNamee.)

ON LOCATION: 'CATCH-22': The long-awaited film version of "Catch-22," Joseph Heller's tragicomic antiwar novel, is finally before the cameras--under the direction of Mike Nichols. In a cactus wasteland in northern Mexico, Nichols has assembled a talented and funny platoon of performers, including the redoubtable Orson Welles, to shoot the film. General Editor Raymond A. Sokolov, just back from the scene, reports on what he saw.

MAN BENEATH THE SPACESUIT: At Cape Kennedy this week the U.S. space program reaches a key step on the way to the moon: the first manned orbital test of the "Spider' '--the 32,000-pound Apollo lunar module intended to land Americans on the moon this summer. The mission also finds the 50- odd U.S. astronauts at a critical stage in their careers. From inter- views in Houston, Cape Kennedy and Washington, Science and Space editor George Alexander and Washington Science correspondent Evert Clark describe the astronauts few people know.

U.S. ECONOMIC POLICY: A SLOW SQUEEZE: The Nixon Administration last week unfolded its economic policy: a gradual, managed slowdown of the economy to ease inflationary pressures. While this stopped far short of forced recession, it meant that tight money and the 10 per cent income-tax surcharge almost certainly would be around for a long time--and unemployment could well rise by 500,000. The stock market reacted by taking its biggest weekly dive in two and a half years. From reports by Washington cor- respondent Henry T. Simmons, General Editor Rich Thomas exam- ines the Administration's strategy (page 65). Senior Editor Clem Morgello looks at the market's plunge and concludes that while Wall Street is bearish, it is not despairing (page 70).

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
Mr. Nixon goes to Europe (the cover).
William P. Rogers--a profile.
Sentinel ABM: very much alive.
A standoff on electoral reform?.
The military code of conduct on trial.
Foundations under fire.
Republicans: Ray Bliss bows out.
Malcolm X--now a legend.
A victory for the hunger fighters.
Conservation: saving Goose Lake Prairie.
THE WAR IN VIETNAM: Pacification: easy come.
INTERNATIONAL:
Pakistan: Ayub Khan calls it quits.
Arab terrorists strike again.
Turkey's anti-American "bloody Sunday".
The Anglo-French diplomatic contretemps.
Peru's squeeze play against the U.S..
Colombia: reform under Lleras Restrepo.
Red China and the captured yachts.
Why China called off the Warsaw talks.
Rumania: the Russians are coming.
Britain's debtors' prisons under fire.
Rhodesia: lan Smith's new constitution.
MEDICINE: Invasion of the plasmodia; Transplants: harvesting the body.
SCIENCE AND SPACE: Death at 100 fathoms in Sealab 3; What's become of the early astronauts.
PRESS: The new breed of columnists.
TV-RADIO:
Irreverent gourmet Graham Kerr.
The UHF band strikes up.
LIFE AND LEISURE: Clubs for the Beautiful (Bored) People.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
Can a long, cool squeeze curb inflation?.
The AFL-CIO invites the police in.
Bank expansion runs into a holding action.
Thomas Murray's private postal system.
Wall Street: groping for the bottom.
The international switch wizards.
Stock futures on Chicago's Board of Trade.
EDUCATION: Backlash against the campus guerrillas; Kurt Vonnegut, 46--and trusted.
RELIGION: Pray along with Unity.
THE COLUMNISTS:
Kenneth Crawford--The Rooney Reform.
Milton Friedman--No Taxation Without Representation.
Stewart Alsop--The Coming Holocaust.

THE ARTS:
MOVIES: Making "Catch-22" in Mexico; with two pages of color pictures.
THEATER: Nudity--front and center.
BOOKS:
The young poets.
Peter Druckers 'Age of Discontinuity".
Jean Stafford's collected stories.
ART:
Eduardo P olozzi, the print man.
Landscapists Ralph Blakelock and Thomas Cole.
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