Word: alienment
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...that an investigation is being conducted that could ultimately result in Moon's deportation, not for his sect's manipulation of thousands of young devotees, but on a technicality involving the resident status of his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon. Allegedly, Mrs. Moon was granted permanent resident alien status in the U.S. on the basis of falsified credentials on her application. If the charge is proved, she could be deported. And if Hak Ja Han is deported, Moon would eventually lose the permanent resident status that was granted him in 1973 because he was married to her. Both...
...telling visitors, the raciest thing in the media was Clark Gable telling Vivien Leigh: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Returning to America from the P.O.W. camps, he had to ask his wife what a massage parlor was. He still sees explicit sex as an "alien element" in our heritage. He passionately wants "to restore patriotism, especially among opinion formers, the people in the media and education." And he is unfazed by opposition, even mockery of his convictions for being naively overwrought. "I'm going to stand up and take it," he says...
...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...