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Many of the undocumented aliens live in a shadowy netherworld, fearful that anyone could betray them to the INS. They are preyed upon by coyote racketeers who take their fee and then skip out on the smuggling assignment; by shyster notaries who have made fortunes providing them with worthless documents; and by employers who call the INS to round up the illegals just before payday...
Good Morning! Before those 'wonderful' eggs benedict betray your stomach, it's time once again to check in with the Journal...
...Matagalpa. The general, a graduate of West Point who speaks English fluently, compared the rebels to "Bronx street gangs-just juvenile delinquents." While admitting that the general strike had grown worse, he insisted he would not resign before his term ends in 1981. To do otherwise, he said, would "betray the aspirations of the people of Nicaragua to live in a free society...
...Singer's fiction and the one least frequently answered. Aaron offers tentative explanations to himself and others: loyalty to the past that Shosha shared with him, a mystic identification with her simplicity, even the conviction that Shosha is the one woman in the world who would never betray him. His act remains greater than the sum of its reasons...
JOHN DANFORTH. The Missouri Republican agonized over his vote up to the moment he cast it. Jewish friends in his home state argued repeatedly that if he were to support the package, he would betray their trust. But Carter, Vance, Brown, the Rockefeller brothers and even Jerry Ford, all called him to argue that the sales would serve the national interest. Danforth was also reminded by Missouri businessmen that the 60 F-15s wanted by Saudi Arabia would mean more jobs for the manufacturer, St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas, already the largest (30,000) private employer in the state...