Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wambaugh recalls, the San Diego police department formed what came to be known as the Border Alien Robbery Force in 1976 to aid the thousands of illegal Mexican aliens who came north from Tijuana. The original ten officers, eight of them Mexican Americans, did not arrest the aliens: the "wetbacks" were useful as cheap labor. Instead, they cracked down on the knife-wielding thieves and rapists who preyed on the meek pollos in the barren DMZ between countries...
...curmudgeonly voice that could be coming from the next after-hours bar stool, Wambaugh makes his message clear. Lines and Shadows shows a bittersweet concern for illegal aliens, but the author's most passionate prose concerns the troops at the front. When the shooting stops, he says, policemen are still the most alien-and alienated-of all. -By LD. Reed
...waterfront, as Bostonian as Bunker Hill. Now they are managing to control drastic changes in the famed Back Bay neighborhood. The latest and most dramatic case in point is Copley Place, a $500 million shopping, office and hotel complex that opens this week. The development might have been another alien invader of the city, like such self-centered and gaudy projects as Renaissance Center in Detroit and Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. But surprisingly, Copley Place almost fits in. There seems enough of Boston's old civic mettle left to have forced a certain architectural civility upon the development...
...roses. Lieber and Bumgartner are prosperous, they can look forward to a promising future, and they do not feel the need to say or do anything that would get them in trouble with the police. But what about an unemployed Black auto worker in Detroit, or a Chicano alien in a sweatshop in L.A.? Ask a priest in El Salvador, or a diamond miner in South Africa what they think of the freedoms that Lieber and Bumgartner enjoy, and they will not know what you are talking about...
...transformation was largely complete by the mid-'70s. But by then, under the twin prods of hard times and rising unemployment, the immigrant question had become a political issue. Responding to pressure from their voters, governments placed heavy restrictions on new immigration. Too late. A new, alien and highly visible population was already entrenched in ghettos across the Continent: in Kreuzberg, along the Wall, in West Berlin; in large areas of Paris, Marseilles, Lyons; in the old quarters of Amsterdam and Utrecht; in the Brussels communes of Saint-Josse, Saint-Gilles and Schaerbeek; in Brixton, Toxteth and two dozen...