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Confronted by the often bewildering requirements of the bill, many illegal aliens have been suckered into fly-by-night scams hatched by crooked self-styled "visa consultants" and "immigration counselors." In East Palo Alto, Calif., Alejandra, a 20-year-old Mexican college student who has been living in the U.S. since 1977, forked over several thousand dollars to a "counselor" at Wally's Immigration Service for what turned out to be phony immigration applications for herself and her family. Later the counselor vanished...
With the "Baby M." case still unresolved, another surrogate dispute ended in San Diego last week with an unorthodox divided custody. High School Science Teacher Mario Haro and his wife Nattie say her second cousin, Alejandra Munoz, agreed in 1985 to bear a child for them for a $1,500 fee but then demanded more money. Munoz, 20, claims the Haros had falsely assured her that after three weeks the embryo would be implanted in Nattie Haro. The child, Lydia Michelle, was born in June. The settlement approved by a judge will permit Munoz to see the child several days...
...fashions. Argentine life provides surface chaos. An attempt to overthrow Perón brings bombs raining down on a city plaza; Peronists retaliate by sacking and burning Roman Catholic churches. Beneath all this noise, the novel circles slowly around an internal mystery, announced at the outset: a woman named Alejandra murders a man named Fernando and then sets the scene of the crime on fire, immolating herself. The event draws attention because it involves members of a prominent, though sadly faded, old family. Particularly horrified is a dreamy, morose young man named Martín, who has had a tortured...
Meeting him in a public park, Alejandra chooses Martín as a companion for reasons that he never quite fathoms. She is erratic, tempestuous, given to long, unexplained absences and indifferent to Martín's growing passion and love. She takes him to the crumbling family home, populated now by a few aging relatives in varying stages of derangement. She suffers what appears to be an epileptic fit, recovers and falls asleep. Martín watches and realizes that he cannot save her: "It was as if the prince ... had at last found himself before the cavern...
...Alejandra seems fated to go mad and to kill Fernando, the father whom she has tried to repudiate. With its hints of incest and its portrait of a doomed family hagridden by history, Alejandra's tale is South American gothic at its most feverish...