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...bill does not set up any quotas, it does not raise the number of people coming to America--certainly prickly subjects today. What it does do, as McKinney has said, is "simply place the Amerasian in has or her proper preference classification based on their legitimate claim as a chile of a U.S. citizen." In other words, Amerasians would be placed on the top of the pile of aspiring immigrants--were they rightfully belong...
...Palestinian immigrants to El Salvador, Handal began his revolutionary career in 1949, when he became involved in student politics while studying law. In 1950 he joined the Communist Party. In 1952 he was exiled, first to Honduras and then to Chile, returning to El Salvador only after a government amnesty for political offenders. In 1960 he was exiled again to Guatemala. In 1961 he returned to El Salvador as a member of the Communist underground. He organized the Unitary Front for Revolutionary Action, attached to the illegal Communist Party, and became the Communist Party's secretary-general...
...intertwining themes in the movie center around the search for Charlie Horman and the relationship between the stuffy, Christian Scientists Lemmon, and the freewheeling, impertinent Spacek. A devout, almost chauvinistic patriot when he first comes to Chile, spouting idioms attesting to the greatness of the American Way, Lemmon slowly hardens to the cold reality of the American Way abroad, as he learns that the U.S. government may have been responsible for not only the revolution itself, but for his own son's death as well...
...refuses to place the blame solely on the shoulders of the government officials Toward the end of the movie, when it becomes increasingly apparent that Charlie Horman has been shot, Gavras gives these slippery bureaucratic types we have grown to hate their say The U S ambassador to Chile explains to Lemmon that whatever the American government has done in Chile "has been done to protect the American way of life at home" Another official chimes in "and a very good way of life it is," and Lemmon cannot argue, because those words echo the very ones he had spoken...
When Lemmon, on his way back to the United States at the end of the movie, warns the U S officials in Chile, "I just thank God we still live in a country where people like you can still be put in jail," we detect more than a note of irony. And we wonder what it is that protects our precious rights, that puts gasoline in our tanks and food in our cupboards. To what extent do things that make our lives pleasant rely upon making others 'lives unpleasant? It is a question that we all, liberal and conservative alike...