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This verdict would delight the Pythons. They have done their best to remove themselves from boring reality and construct something far more pleasurable. It was in a London pub in 1969 that John Cleese and Graham Chapman, gagwriters for the Frost Report, teamed up with Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle, similarly disaffected writers from Britain's then booming satire business. They decided to start their own program. The BBC did not balk when told that the show would be "anarchic and free." Recalls Cleese: "They thought they were getting another latenight satire show. It wasn...
Screenplay by GRAHAM CHAPMAN...
Works of Purcell, Ame, Schubert, Honegger, and Tohalkovaky; Cynthia Weinrich, Mezzo-soprano, and Priscilla Chapman, piano; Agassiz Living Room...
Outright Fraud. Getting into the U.S.-and staying there-is relatively easy. Only 1,700 border agents police the nation's lengthy northern and southern perimeters, and the INS has a mere 900 investigators working in the nation's cities. Concedes Chapman: "Some 80% to 90% of the illegal aliens in this country are virtually beyond our reach." At least 300,000 persons arriving last year in the U.S. as tourists or students simply failed to leave. Tens of thousands more are spirited in by professional smugglers, who command as much as $1,500 for their services. Others...
...plans to hire 213 more border patrolmen next year, hardly enough to make an appreciable difference. Says Chapman: "There is only one practical way to stop, or even slow, the vast numbers who seek to come to this country by any means available-that is to eliminate the attraction that brings them here. That attraction is jobs." In 1972 New Jersey Congressman Peter Rodino introduced a bill that would make it a crime for employers to knowingly hire illegal aliens. Under the bill an employer, beginning with his third offense, could spend a year in jail for each illegal alien...