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...Mazzoli, Rep. Roybal recognizes that 73 percent of illegal immigrants pay federal taxes and that 77 percent pay social security taxes (though a neglible percentage receive social security benefits). This bill, supported by most Hispanic organizations, also includes a special section protecting illegal immigrants from deportation while they await decisions on their resident status, making it more likely that some of them will come forward...
While they await the arrival of refugees, the church group has prepared facilities, food, and funds. "We also have to be ready emotionally--we are at risk" as well as the refugees, Wetherall said. Harboring an illegal alien is a federal offense punishible by up to five years in prison...
...15th opening-day start, leaving Walter Johnson in the dust. As it turns out, a surprising 19-year-old named Dwight Gooden could open for the Mets, while Seaver may have to follow behind several White Sox pitchers. But he seems unconcerned. A whole new league and audience await him. "I hope I pitch well for them," he says quietly and adds lyrically, "I've never been inside Fenway. It should be an adventure...
Many of the auditioners, especially those who survive to await the taking of group photographs, know one another and exchange greetings. The atmosphere is friendly rather than competitive. The sheer arithmetic of the situation means that no one person will be the reason that another fails to get hired. While he waits for the photo call, Danny Esteras, 25, jokes or commiserates with acquaintances and passes out cards for his wife's hair-styling business. Like most "successful" show dancers, he is in and out of work: he appeared in a 1981 international tour of West Side Story...
Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a former aide of Henry Kissinger's who is now at the Brookings Institution, believes that the core questions of nuclear-arms control will have to await a number of other developments. Before it would be prudent for the U.S. to make any adjustments in its negotiating positions in INF or START, he says, the Soviets will have to show flexibility in the talks between NATO and the Warsaw Pact on conventional forces that are due to resume in Vienna next month. They should agree to "confidence-building measures," like the ongoing negotiations over upgrading the Moscow...