Word: alienness
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...Lown is certainly a victim of this. It was also reflected in the priorities of the 3,000 (or was it 30,000?) journalists gathered at the recent summit in Geneva. Reports filed back home and questions asked at press conferences focused with remarkable consistency on nukes. An alien observer might conclude from IPPNW's work and Geneva that the U.S. and the Soviet Union are just conglomerations of defense firms playing some giant version of the boardgame "Billionaire...
...protagonist is Eleanor Arroway, director of Project Argus, a Government- sponsored undertaking to comb the universe for alien messages. The time is 1999, when, in Sagan's irrepressibly progressive vision, the President of the U.S. is a woman, and the world's smartest man is a Nigerian. The aliens, however, are stereotypical. By the time their cosmic call is returned, it is clear they are vastly more intelligent and wiser than we are; among other things, they do not seem to have deregulated their telephone system...
...Federal Government, however, maintains that the Central American aliens are fleeing from economic want rather than persecution. Says Laura Dietrich, a State Department official: "Coming from a country with generalized conditions of poverty and civil unrest is not enough." Last year the U.S. granted asylum to 503 Salvadorans. In the same year agents apprehended 18,920 and deported 3,890, but thousands more remain while they complete the appeals process. By contrast, in the same year 45 Soviets were granted asylum and 43 were refused. Judge Earl Carroll, who is presiding at the Tucson trial, has already announced that...
...Alien Magnet...
Brugman countered objections that the new alien policies would attract "terrorists and criminals" to Massachusetts. "We're talking about [the aliens'] welfare, not protecting terrorists," he said. "I think it's a very positive move on the part of the governor...