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Castro realizes several gains from the alien presence on his soil. His much-publicized cessation in '65 of the flow of Cuban labor to the base conveniently did not include current workers. It's taken fully two decades to narrow the Cuban workforce to a few hundred from an early '60s level of several thousand. All workers on the base are paid in dollars. The hard currency flow to the cash-strapped Havana regime must be extremely welcome...
...science fiction. People begin acting like characters in the first reel of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They peer intently at one another as if to detect the telltale change, the secret lesion, the sign that someone has crossed over, is not himself anymore, but one of them, alien and lethal. In the plague mentality, one belongs either to the kingdom of life or to the kingdom of death. So the state of mind glints with a certain fanaticism. It is said that when children saw the telltale sign during the Black Death in the 14th century, they sang...
...however limited, the effect of official pressure on the students was akin to direct censorship. It's a concept that one would think alien at an institution that so proudly and so often trumpets the ideals of academic freedom...
...however limited, the effect of official pressure on the students was akin to direct censorship. It's a concept that one would think alien at an institution that so proudly and so often trumpets the ideals of academic freedom...
...Phillipses decided to cooperate after Immigration officials informed them that a girl they had adopted earlier was an illegal alien. The INS allowed them to keep the child because the parents believed the adoption was legal. Other couples duped by the ring have been traced to eight states from California to New York. Authorities say they will allow these parents to keep their children if they were adopted innocently. The Tijuana ring is believed to have smuggled in nearly as many Mexican infants over the past two years as had come in legally for adoption...