Includes index.

January : Mondale's eulogy of Humphrey -- State of the Union address -- Justice Department inquiry into Marston dismissal -- President Carter's economic report; Economic Advisers' report -- President Carter's budget message ; February : Carter arms sales policy -- Coal mine workers' strike -- Mideast warplane sales ; March : Civil service reform -- Rhodesia's 'internal agreement' -- Chinese Constitution -- Panama Canal treaties -- Carter on U.S. policy toward Soviet Union -- Carter's urban message -- Court on Judicial immunity -- Carter world trip ; April : Court on pensions for men and women -- Court on corporate spending in referendum campaigns ; May : Carter on lawyers and doctors -- Court on safety inspections -- Court on newsroom searches -- Carter's NATO speech ; June : Carter water policy -- California's proposition 13 -- Solzhenitsyn on Western decline -- Court on media ownership -- Court on endangered species -- Court on historic preservation -- Court on affirmative action. July : Court on capital punishment -- Court on 'indecent' broadcasts -- Bonn Economic Summit -- Carter 'principles' for national health plan -- U.S.-Soviet strategic arms limitation talks ; August : China-Japan peace treaty -- District of Columbia voting amendment ; September : Papal succession -- Camp David accords -- Incidence of workplace cancer -- Study of human exposure to P.B.B. in Michigan -- IMF-World Bank meeting ; October : Report on swine flu immunization program -- Carter, Fed actions on dollar and inflation -- U.S. policy and Iran's crisis ; November : Firestone 500 recall ; December : Carter's preservation of Alaska's federal lands -- New European monetary system -- Court on searches and evidence -- Democratic midterm conference -- Normalization of U.S.-China relations -- OPEC oil price rise -- FAA flight safety plan -- Spanish Democratic Constitution -- Korean influence investigation -- Assassinations Committee conclusion.