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Whatever the exact numbers, there is little doubt that the tide of undocumented Hispanic aliens has reached flood stage. Many thousands have come from Central and South American countries like Guatemala, Colombia and Ecuador, but about 90% are Mexican. On foot, by air or in autos, they filter across the 2,000-mile-long southern U.S. border. Last year nearly 1 million illegal entrants were apprehended and deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. But, admits Los Angeles Police Officer Antonio Amador, "the only way we're going to stop them is to build a Berlin Wall...
...Paper Lion roars again, only this time Author George Plimpton is into fireworks, not football. For four years, professional Mittyman Plimpton has dreamed of orchestrating an international exhibition of fireworks, and last week he finally gave it a crack in Manhattan's Central Park. Plimpton's pyrotechnics featured music and 3½ minutes of displays from each of seven nations. "The Chinese firecrackers were vast chrysanthemum bursts. The Italians were all noise," says he by way of review. Why is he so hot on fireworks? Says Plimpton, who is now working on a book about the world...
Firm answers are difficult to come by; witness the Central Intelligence Agency's forays into the slippery field of oil forecasting. In his drive for a conservation-oriented energy program early last year, President Carter leaned heavily on a CIA forecast for his ominous prediction that depletion of all of the proven reserves "in the entire world" could begin by the end of the 1980s. Now comes another CIA report, this one prepared by Richard Nehring, a policy analyst for the Rand Corp., which concludes that doomsday is considerably further...
...will hold for the Post regardless of what the two other papers agree to. Under that provision, Murdoch need guarantee his pressmen only five straight-time shifts a week, a deal that he estimates could save up to $ 1 million a year in overtime. The number of shifts is central to the key issue in the pressmen's strike-how many workers are truly needed to man modern, high-speed newspaper presses -though the final answer to that question will depend on the News and Times settlements...
...Middletown III researchers, working on a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, are still two years away from presenting a final report. Their central finding, however, seems clear: almost all the social forces shaping life in modern-day Muncie were already present in 1924. It amounts to a startling message about the nation: that American life has not changed very much in 50 years -or at least the kind of American life lived in a town like Muncie. The Lynds, describing the wrenching dislocations that propelled America from a somnolent agrarianism to a modern industrialism, said that...