Lesson 1
News in Brief: 1. Freed American hostage Jacobsen
2. Reagan''s campaign
3. New President in Mozambique
News in Detail: David Jacobsen in West Germany
Special Report: Barnstone on Mao Tsetong''s poems
Reading:
Hostage Release
Lesson 2
News in Brief: 1. US Secret diplomatic mission to Iran
2. Waite and hostage negotiation
3. Family reunion of the Jacobsens
4. US Congress election
News in Detail: Former US National Security Advisor''s visit to
Tehran
Special Report: One fundamentalist religious group on trial
Reading:
Blackmailing the US
Lesson 3
News in Brief: 1. IBM pulls out of South Africa
2. Demonstrations in Zimbabwe
3. Kohl''s meeting with Reagan
News in Detail: West German Chancellor Kohl in Washington
Special Report: A college scholarship program in Boston
Reading:
US Big Business Pulls Out
Lesson 4
News in Brief: 1. One more American kidnapped in Beirut
2. Soviet UN employee on spy charges
3. A magazine editor killed in Chile
News in Detail: Unrest in Chile
Special Report: Brief history of the Ford Foundation
Reading:
Pinochet Strikes Back
Lesson 5
News in Brief: 1. A new bill to combat illegal drugs
2. A US-Soviet cultural exchange faces boycott
3. Agreement on the Taba border dispute
News in Detail: New efforts in resolving drug problems
Special Report: A Center for Chinese and American Studies
Reading:
1. Drug Fever in Washington
2. Summit in Alexandria
Lesson 6
News in Brief: 1. Senate overrides Reagan''s veto
2. American food aid threatened
3. White House''s denial Of misleading the press
News in Detail: Disififormation campaign against Quddafi
Special Report: TV and teenage suicide rate
Reading:
1. Shadowboxing with Quddafi
2. Quddafi: A War of Leaks
Lesson 7
News in Brief: 1. New immigration law
2. Abortion case in the Supreme Court
3. Elie Wiesel: Nobel Peace Prize Winner
NeWs in Detail: An immigration reform in US
Special Report: Photographs vs. Reality
Reading:
March of the Nobel Laureates
Lesson 8
News in Brief: 1. Arrival of Cuban prisoners
2. Reagan announces new plans against drug
abuse
3. Shimon Peres in Washington
News in Detail: Israeli Prime Minister''s last visit to US
Special Report: Poetry written by medical students
Reading:
A Souffle Summit in Egypt
Lesson 9
News in Brief: 1. Assassination attempt against Gandhi
2. Jess Moore and Challenger disaster
News in Detail: Rajiv Gandhi escapes an assassination attempt
Special Report: Farmhand program and city dwellers
Reading:
lndia: Gandhi''s Escape
Lesson 10
News in Brief: 1. US defense spending bill
2. Air raid in Beirut
3. South Africa and international sanctions
4. Reagan vetos a sanctions bill
5. Trading on Wall Street
News in Detail: Israeli bombs Palestinian bases
Special Report: Strike of Californian wine workers
Reading:
Ferment in California
Lesson 11
News in Brief: 1. Texas Air buys People Express Airline
2. A rally on Wall Street
3. Freedom flight of Cuban political prisoners
News in Detail: Expansion of Texas Air Corporation
Special Report: Nancy Griffith and country music
Reading:
Country Music
Lesson 12
News in Brief: 1. American reporter Daniloff in West Germany
2. Disagreement on sanctions against South
Africa
News in Detail: Daniloffis freed in Moscow
Special Report: Earthquake and new economic structure in
Mexico
Reading:
1. A Chill in the Air
2. Trading a Cell for a Finer Hotel
Lesson 13
News in Brief: 1. Impeachment trial of Judge Claiborne
2. Reagan for a drug free America
3. Bomb explosion in Paris
News in Detail: Terrorist activities in Paris
Special Report: US counter-intelligence efforts
Reading:
The Bombs of September
Lesson 14
News in Brief: 1. Resignation of Bernard Kalb
2. US plane crashes in Nicaragua
News in Detail: Bernard Kalb and disinformation program
Special Report: Freedom fighters in Warsaw during World War II
Reading:
Bernard Kalb''s Modest Dissent
Lesson 15
News in Brief: 1. Release of Daniloff and Iceland meeting
2. Vatican''s denouncement against homosexua-
lity
3. Drug-related death of a basketball star
News in Detail: A warm welcome for freed Daniloff
Special Report: Power struggle in CBS
Reading:
The Showdown at CBS
Lesson 16
News in Brief: 1. Announcement of US-Soviet Iceland meeting
2. Yuri Orlov, Soviet dissident
News in Detail: Forthcoming Iceland meeting
Special Report: Maternity leave and job guarantee
Reading:
Yuri Orlov: the End of an Ordeal
Lesson 17
News in Brief: 1. American hostages appeal in videotape
2. US expectations for the Iceland meeting
News in Detail: Hostages accuse US government of inaction
Special Report: Controversy about the management in UNESCO
Reading:
Summit Hopes
Lesson 18
News in Brief: 1. Flooding in Midwest
2. A French hostage freed
3. Carter''s presidential library
News in Detail: Flooding in Illinois and Wisconsin
Special Report: Fast food and nutrition
Reading:
High Water, Low Spirits
Lesson 19
News in Brief: 1. Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan
2. New plans for space shuttle mission
3. Geraldine Ferarro''s husband indicted
News in Detail: NASAls new plans for space shuttle launches
Special Report: Forbes''s list of 400 wealthiest in America
Reading:
1. Blast off for Profits
2. The Family Ties That Bind
Lesson 20
News in Brief: 1. Pentagon''s comment on Soviet withdrawal
2. Strike of black miners in South Africa
3. King Fahd fires Saudi Arabia''s Oil Minister
News in Detail: Sheik Yamani, former Oil Minister of Saudi
Arabia
Special Report: American military bases in the Philippines
Reading:
A Wild Goodbye to Mr. Oil
Lesson 21
News in Brief: 1. AIDS
2. French photographer kidnapped
3. Retired auto worker identified as Nazi officer
News in Detail: More funding for AIDS research and education
Special Report: Hard Choices and film festival
Reading:
Call to Battle
Lesson 22
News in Brief: 1. US savings bonds
2. Death of Mozambique President in plane crash
3. New US Ambassador to South Africa
News in Detail: Nomination of a black Ambassador to South
Africa
Special Report: Beryl Markham, a pioneer in aviation
Reading:
Foreign Service
Lesson 23
News in Brief: 1. Sinking of a nuclear sub
2. French hostages on videotape
3. Flooding in Oklahoma
News in Detail: A crippled Soviet nuclear sub Sinks
Special Report: New discovery in Columbus'' landing spot
Reading:
A Scary Accident at Sea
Lesson 24
News in Brief: 1. Explosion in abortion clinic
2. American trade deficit
3. New details about Waldheim''s war crimes
News inDetail: Waldheim''s involvement in German army during
WW II
Special Report: Airline mergers
Reading:
Flying Among the Merger Clouds
Lesson 25
News in Brief: 1. US plane downed in Nicaragua
2. Waldheim''s confession
3. South Africa comments on the plane crash
News in Detail: US denies connection with downed plane
Special Report: Halloween
Reading:
The Contras'' Proxy War
Lesson 26
News in Brief: 1. Raid on LaRouche headquarters
2. New term of the Supreme Court
3. US-Japanese trade
News in Detail: The beginning of 1986 - 1987 term of the Supreme
Court
Special Report: New cancer treatment
Reading:
1. Card Tricks
2. The Court Reassembled
3. New Weapon in the Cancer War
Lesson 27
News in Brief: 1. Defection of American cancer researcher
2. Budget debate
3. Flooding in Missouri
News in Detail: Congressional restraints on Reagan before
Iceland
Special Report: Alaska Performing Arts for Peace
Reading:
A Deadlock on US Sanctions
Lesson 28
News in Brief： 1. Reagan on the Iceland meeting
2. Aftermath of an earthquake in San Salvador
3. Disaster damage in Alaska
News in Detail: US-Soviet Iceland meeting
Special Report: Presidential debate: Bush vs. Dukakis
Reading:
Death in E1 Salvador
Lesson 29
News in Brief: 1. Reaction to Iceland meeting
2. Flood water recedes in Alaska
3. Students'' protest in South Africa
News in Detail: Rescue efforts in flood-stricken Alaska
Special Report: Psychological struggle between Arab and Jew
Reading:
Deadlock in Iceland
Lesson 30
News in Brief： 1. Israeli''s raid on southern Lebanon
2. Nobel Prize for Literature
3. Emergency funding bill
News in Detail: Israeli''s reaction to PLO''s attack in Jerusalem
Special Report: Wole Soyinka, winner of Nobel Prize for Litera-
ture
Reading:
Nobel Prize for Literature
Lesson 31
News in Brief： 1. Death of Mozambique President
2. GM sells its business in South Africa
3. US reaction to Soviet expulsion of diplomats
News in Detail: Cause and effects of the death of Machel
Special Report: New York Film Festival
Reading:
Anger Over a Plane Crash
Lesson 32
News in Brief: 1. US intends to end the diplomatic war
2. Reagan''s campaign trip
3. A plea for captured US pilot
News in Detail: US-Soviet diplomatic war
Special Report: Philosopher on reality
Reading:
1. Bang! Bang! You''re Out!
2. In Moscow, Help Wanted
Lesson 33
News in Brief: 1. US reaction to international terrorism
2. Prisoner swap proposal
3. Former Air Force man charged with spying
News in Detail: Britain urges sanctions against Syria
Special Report: Trial of a Syria-backed terrorist
Reading:
Syria--Guilty as Charged
Lesson 34
News in Brief: 1. Sex education in schools
2. Crackdown on the pornography industry
3. US economic situation
News inDetail: Surgeon General proposes sex education in
schools
Special Report: The art of thinking--the working of the mind
Reading:
1. The Toughest Virus of All
2. A Most Explicit Report
Lesson 35
News in Brief： 1. US Senate''s impeachment trial
2. Report on the cause of Challenger disaster
News in Detail: Impeachment trial of federal judge
Special Report: Transportation of nuclear weapons in the US
Reading:
Painful Duty
Lesson 36
News in Brief: 1. Random drug tests for NFL players
2. NASA''s efforts to remodel space shuttle
3. Gathering of world religious leaders
News in Detail: World''s religious leaders gather to pray for peace
Special Report: American Century vs. American Crisis
Reading:
A Summit for Peace in Assisi
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