Word: alien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devaluation, Rhodesia's carpetbaggers can pocket half their paychecks of $1,200 to $1,500 monthly earned in such critically labor-short industries as mining and engineering. Mining jobs are available to immigrants who can produce proof of having worked only 200 shaft hours. Such alien adventurers are often as undesirable as redneck mercenaries. Says one supervisor at a Rhodesian iron mine: "It's easy work. The niggers dig all the holes. You just stand over them...
...ancestry than any distinguishing strength of its own. Dune, with its meticulously laid-out setting and equally convincing set of characters, proved that Herbert is the ultimate practitioner of the fantasy-science fiction art. As the best fantasy sci-fi should, it ensnarls its readers; entrapping the unsuspecting alien in a coherent, make-believe world that he can escape only when the author permits it, with his final page...
With 80% of the illegal alien population originating in Mexico, Carter's plan has upset many Hispanics already holding U.S. citizenship. Chief reason: the provision letting 1970-76 illegal immigrants stay on only temporarily. California Congressman Edward R. Roybal, leader of the House's five-member Hispanic caucus, charges that this will create a new "sub-class of braceros "-the Mexican laborers who under much criticized programs from 1942 to 1964 were granted temporary papers to work on U.S. farms and then sent home at the end of the harvest. Carter's class of temporary residents would...
...place of pock-marked streets, gutted tenements and broken hopes. Affluent people know little about this world, except when despair makes it erupt explosively onto Page One or the 7 o'clock news. Behind its crumbling walls lives a large group of people who are more intractable, more socially alien and more hostile than almost anyone had imagined. They are the unreachables: the American underclass...
...documentary, Elvis on Tour, there is a quick scene of Elvis, stranded on an airport runway, waiting for the gangway of his private plane to roll out. He is caught in the glare of sunlight, and he looks up in the sky with startled curiosity, as if surveying an alien planet...