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Pg… 4 Editor's Note How to sneak into Afghanistan
Pg… 7 The View from Here Pardon my asking: What's new? By Loudon Wainwright
Pg… 8 Camera at Work Photographer Starr Ockenga transforms tiny mortals into Valentine cupids
Pg… 14 Letters
Pg… 17 Portrait: Paul Newman The 59–year–old actor talks about life, death and Harry and Son, an upcoming film that he both directed and starred in By Peter W. Kaplan
Pg… 22 Prisoners of the Afghans Soviet deserters expose a dark corner of a savage war and find themselves men without a country
Pg… 30 Only Mondale Beats Reagan LIFE polls a county in Iowa that has picked America's President since 1896?and the results are surprising
Pg… 36 Is This What Christ Really Looked Like? After studying the Shroud of Turin, an English painter produces a new, tougher Jesus
Pg… 42 LIFE Visits the Great White Bears A tale of Arctic beauty and brutality By Anne Fadiman
Pg… 58 COVER STORY The Beatles Return with us to yesteryear (February '64 to be exact) when the Liverpool lads first landed in the U.S. and a generation of Americans went ape
Pg… 70 Kenny's World A legless 10–year–old struggles, with the help of a loving family, to live a rewarding life
Pg… 75 LIFE Around the World The Vivid Legacy of Miraculous Miro A Gathering of Medal of Honor Heroes An American Whirls Toward Sarajevo
Pg… 80 Just One More : Cover photograph by John Loengard