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Kennedy, who spoke at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Legalization Center, said that illegal aliens still fear coming forward to apply for amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Kennedy's address comes one week after Boston supporters marked the act's first anniversary with a report on the failure of the government to reach out successfully into the illegal alien community...

Author: By Abigail N. Sosland, | Title: Kennedy Calls on Community To Reach Out to Immigrants | 11/17/1987 | See Source »

...timing, like his trademark white suit, was impeccable and dramatic. After two-stepping through the Eisenhower era, America was ready to rock 'n' roll. Wolfe covered the arrival of the Beatles for their first U.S. tour and caught the moment with a description of hysterical fans throbbing like alien protoplasm against the plate glass of the airport waiting room. The story stretched conventional journalistic license, but few readers could deny that this brightly tailored, soft-spoken Virginian was up to something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Haves and the Have-Mores THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 659 pages; $19.95 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...into a howl of a newspaper column. Prepare three times a week; serves 31 million in 900 papers, at latest count. In this eighth book, an amiable reworking of her familiar material, Bombeck is still distracted like a fox and still being funny about her layabout kids and the alien life forms that glow in the back of refrigerators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 26, 1987 | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Organized smuggling rings control much of the illegal-alien traffic into Puerto Rico. They do an especially brisk business with Dominicans, many of whom sell all their belongings for a chance to get to U.S. soil. While some Dominicans land in Puerto Rico, others travel to the continental U.S., ( especially New York City. The going rate for a no-frills, no-guarantees trip across the Mona Passage is as high as $1,000. More deluxe trips, complete with falsified documents and a truck ride to San Juan, can cost thousands of dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic Horror off Death's Head Beach | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...into a slavering insect. The current hit Fatal Attraction preaches that no man is safe from a fling who gets flung: her jealousy cuts like a knife. Scott's film, cooler, less apocalyptic, says only this: Know your place -- Manhattan or Queens, restlessness or security -- and stay in it. Alien worlds should never collide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: High-Risk Love in an Alien World SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

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