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...White House avoided complying with U.S. immigration laws by bullying Mexico into dealing with a boatload of Chinese refugees. Exhibiting the same hostility toward immigrants that Americans have denounced in Germany (and demonstrating the same there's-a-constitutional-amendment-for-every-contr oversy attitude that brought us the flag burning amendment and the balanced budget amendment), California Gov. Pete Wilson proposed to change the U.S. Constitution so that being born in America would no longer automatically make people American...
MARK O'DONNELL'S COLLECTION OF COMIC short stories, VERTIGO PARK AND OTHER TALL TALES (Knopf; $18), is like a literary version of Saturday Night Live -- a boatload of strained laughs mixed with a few great jokes that keep the whole thing afloat. Bright spots: "She didn't realize deliberate perkiness offended, the way the smell of ammonia becomes associated with the odors it's supposed to remove," and "Necessity is the mother of affection," and "Do you not be happy with me as the translator of the books of you?" There are pieces about Samuel Beckett, obsessed fans...
LAST MAY CANDIDATE CLINTON WAS "APPALLED" BY George Bush's decision to force every boatload of fleeing Haitians back to the thugs in charge of their country, without checking to see if anyone on board qualified for political ( asylum under a treaty the U.S. signed. But President Clinton now backs forcible return, and a government lawyer (a Bush holdover) vigorously argued for it last week before the Supreme Court. This broken promise has infuriated black leaders and human-rights lawyers. But Clinton fears that an armada of poor blacks will wash up on Florida...
...effort to forestall a massive refugee influx from Haiti, both the old and new White House Administrations were pushing for a political settlement between the military and ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Last week, however, the boats kept coming: a record boatload of 352 Haitian refugees sailed up the Miami River...
Love him or hate him, President Carlos Saul Menem is never dull. Since taking office in 1989, he has been embroiled in enough scandals to sink a boatload of American politicians...