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IMMIGRATION. Some half a million immigrants, mainly Mexicans, enter the U.S. illegally every year, joining any where from 3 million to 6 million who are already here competing against U.S. citizens for jobs. The 97th Congress blew a chance to stem the tide by failing to pass the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, which combined amnesty for illegal aliens who have escaped detection so far with a system of fines on employers who knowingly hire illegal entrants in the future. The new Congress must start afresh. It will be hampered by the same troubles that blocked the bill last year...
News of the violence has hurt Mugabe's efforts to attract foreign investments. Twice in the past month, guerrillas seeking to overthrow the Marxist government of neighboring Mozambique blew up a pipeline that fed essential supplies of oil to Zimbabwe from the Mozambican port city of Beira. As a result, streets and highways in Zimbabwe are now largely deserted, many workers stay home, and motorists who insist on filling up must wait for as long as 24 hours for a turn at the pump. Even nature seems to have conspired against the country: much of Zimbabwe is parched from...
...least, is one of the messages of William Grieder's thoughtful, trenchant, and lively new book, The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans. Grieder is the former Washington Post editor whose interview in The Atlantic Monthly with Stockman, President Reagan's sharp 35-year-old budget director, blew Reaganomics' ideological cover and made "trickle-down economics" a household expression. Now the national affairs editor at Rolling Stone, Grieder has updated the Stockman interview, in which the budget director admitted that the president's economic program is unworkable and ill-considered, making a book out of it by adding...
Since the Sharpeville massacre, the ANC has developed a mass following and an increased paramilitary sophistication. In June 1980, the ANC simultaneously blew up two coal-to-oil fuel installations in the Orange Free State and Transvaal regions. And the newly leaked CIA report says the ANC's "major incidents" against the state increased from 10 in 1980 to 41 in 1981. Even now, the organization exercises restraint, as the CIA points out: "It is clear the ANC could have inflicted a large number of white casualties if it had chosen...