Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events took place that inspired Peter Hyams to make this outerspace thriller. On March 9, the NASA space probe Voyager I discovered an erupting volcano on Io, the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter; and on May 25, 20th Century-Fox released the film Alien. Io gave Hyams his setting: a futuristic mining colony that looks like a gigantic Tinkertoy. Alien provided much of the rest: a crew of steel-spined, me-first mercenaries stalked by a mysterious killer. (In Alien it was a mutating monster; here it is a dangerous drug.) Mix them together with the plot from...
...professional smuggler. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has only 2,100 agents stationed along the 2,000-mile border, and no more than 400 are on duty at any one time. Border patrol officials estimate that they manage to catch at best only one out of two illegal aliens who try to make it across. Once caught, an illegal alien can drag out deportation proceedings for months. Once deported, he can simply turn around and start the trip back...
What exactly is the economic impact of illegal immigration? The A.F.L-CIO argues that every job taken by an illegal alien is a job lost by an American. Union officials blame not the aliens but their employers, who pay illegal workers less than Americans. Since most of the wages are in cash, employers also often avoid paying Social Security taxes and insurance...
...McSwiney, Connolly. Pearse, de Valera and a hundred others hadn't, that the IRA men are willing to lay down their own lives for a free Ireland. Sands proved something else about the IRA, too-their struggle will not ever stop while their country remains divided and under alien rule. He died knowing he would not see Ulster ruled from Dublin, but sure that his comrades would carry on the fight. And he was buried in an IRA graveyard next to hundreds of others who knew the same thing, and were right. There are more starving themselves right now, though...
...Should it be funded for those who are poor? In considering such explosive questions, legislators have plunged themselves into the middle of a war zone. "It's the toughest issue I've had to deal with in 20 years of public life," says newly elected Republican Senator Alien Specter of Pennsylvania. Predicts Barbara Shack, of the New York Civil Liberties Union: "The abortion fight is the political battle...