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Monitor articles for August 31, 1988

• Screen-testing for the White House
• Combating the drug menace. 30 countries join US in drug war
• Medicare surtax on the way. Elderly will bear tax burden for long-term care
• Foreign press fumbles to get a fix on US presidential race
• No clear-cut Super Bowl favorites as NFL launches 1988 season
• A major Brazilian star reaches out to the US. SINGER/COMPOSER DJAVAN
• ROCK/POP/JAZZ
• Lurching through one of the Bard's lesser works
• The Mideast: hopes restrained
• `Gone on arrival'?
• The end of key Latin American democracies?
• New trade law helps manufacturers tap unused innovations
• Western Sahara: next feather in UN peace cap?
• Preventing Irangate reruns
• `Sniffing': legal substances, illegal use
• Bush thrives despite furor over Quayle. In recent polls, Bush's `positives' rise while the `negatives' go down
• The individual and espionage
• Idaho's not D.C.
• Education secretary unveils model for elementary education
• At the feet of Socrates
• A universe of visions
• Summer school passes along the legends of jazz
• The contras' true colors and the Berm'udez connection
• US air shows will go on, despite crash
• Dukakis at the bat: Babe Ruth - or Casey?
• CR`EME FRA^ICHE. For an elegant touch to food, do as the French do
• Artists' sketchbooks
• Fervor of Burmese protest dampened as opposition regroups
• Idaho farmers have hay, Iowans will travel. When cattle go hungry, farmers pull together