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Republicans, on the other hand, have always kept a pretty low profile in this city of 96,000. While the city's diverse immigrant groups and blue collar workers support bread and butter issues, intellectuals and students from Cambridge's two major universities concern themselves with issues like the nuclear freeze movement and granting sanctuary to Central American refugees...
...shock the economy back to health. The program included an 18.8% devaluation of the shekel (which beforehand was worth 1,262 to the U.S. dollar) and a three-month general wage and price freeze, along with price increases of 17% to 82% on such subsidized products as gasoline, bread and milk. At the same time, the Cabinet cut away the methods that Israelis use to protect themselves from inflation, by suspending the wage-indexing system that ties earnings to the cost of living and severely restricting further deposits in bank accounts linked to the value of the U.S. dollar...
Shish kebabs and steaks arrived quickly, along with watermelon and cans of Pepsi-Cola. "This is not our normal fare," muttered Tom Cullins of Vermont. Said another: "We lived on bread and water our first five days." There was a chorus of dissent. "Come off it," said a hostage, "it was better than that." The main complaint: their captors continually woke them up at ungodly hours to discuss the situation...
Recent newcomers -- Greeks and Middle Easterners, Hispanics and Asians -- are already adding their produce, breads and seasonings to the ever expanding American larder. Pita bread and tacos are now on supermarket shelves alongside English muffins and bagels. Cilantro, jalapeno peppers and mangoes are almost as standard in produce departments as carrots and apples; hoisin sauce and annatto are right there on the shelf with the catsup and mustard...
...Croatians from Yugoslavia; 1,800 Colombians; 6,200 immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. In the Flushing section of Queens, a few miles east, there are 38,000 Koreans. Before he explored his new neighborhood recently, one Flushing resident fresh from India had been expecting a blonder, Wonder Bread community, like Des Moines, maybe, or Tacoma. "It wasn't America," he says of northeastern Queens. "It was the U.N. I saw Colombians, Koreans, Chinese, Dominican Republicans -- but not a single hamburger...