Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVEN IF we say, which I am fearful of doing, that the Iran-contra scandal diminishes the likelihood of immediate American military involvement in Central America, the visible fact remains that the Reagan Administration's policy toward Nicaragua is a war policy. It is not easy to look at this policy and conclude that the Unites States is in anything less than a prolonged pre-war period at present. Whether Congress gives the contras $100 million, $500 million, or nothing at all, the current realities indicate that the proxy war will continue and that the contras...
Those were the central charges in indictments won last week by federal prosecutors against 15 white supremacists. Ten men were accused of sedition by a grand jury in Fort Smith, Ark.; one of them, plus four other men, was also charged with plotting to murder a federal judge and an FBI agent. Three of the Fort Smith defendants and a woman were separately indicted by a grand jury in Denver for depriving Radio Talk Show Host Alan Berg of his civil rights -- by machine-gunning him to death...
Every immigrant has a dream: to be free, unafraid, able to earn a decent living. Those are the benefits that America seems to offer to newcomers to these shores. But the reality is rarely so sunny. For millions of Mexicans, Central Americans, Chinese, Irish and others who enter surreptitiously, America can be as much a prison as a refuge. Most illegal immigrants live along the margins of society, working cheaply, anonymously and without complaint so as to avoid detection by authorities. Although they have become part of the texture of American life, they have remained anxious fugitives, separate and unequal...
...year effort in Congress to stanch the increasing flow of illegal immigration. Romano Mazzoli, the Kentucky Congressman who was a key sponsor of the original legislation in the House, sums up the sentiment behind it: "Any nation that doesn't have control over its borders is a nation whose central core might be threatened." The law is based on a carrot-stick principle: it offers legal status to long-term immigrants while mandating sanctions against employers who knowingly hire more recent arrivals. Illegal aliens who can prove they have been permanent residents in the U.S. since before...
...couples and the uncoupled inhabit in these stories. Most are set in the New England exurbs whose historical and residential enchantments are mainstays of Updike's magic kit. An exception is The Ideal Village, about a party of gringo fact finders in the jungle settlement of a sect of Central American social visionaries. The story is to the others in the book what The Coup is to Updike's other novels, a public variation on the folly of private utopias. Concludes the narrator: "It was not until weeks afterwards, collating our diaries in the course of preparing our report...