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Labor leaders contend that illegal aliens not only rob Americans of jobs but also lower wages and degrade working conditions, especially for workers at the low end of the payroll. The biggest losers, according to Otis L. Graham, professor of history at the University of North Carolina, are those who traditionally made their living in the sort of unskilled jobs taken by aliens. Dismiss those illegal workers, insists Graham, and not only will blacks win back their jobs but wages and safety standards will rise too. Says Graham: "I see illegal immigration as preventing the economic phase of the civil...
...Harvard had then further lowered the rents, as our critics contend, the taxes would again have been too high," it continues. "Keep in mind that Harvard could have asked for higher rents in the mid-1970s to bring them in line with the higher taxes," the letter states...
...ship-launched cruise missiles. Battle lines are already being drawn for upcoming debates over the MX missile and a new B-l bomber. Even the Administration's proposal to reactivate two mothballed warships, including the World War II battleship New Jersey, has run into strong Senate opposition. Critics contend the ships simply are not worth the salvage cost...
...that were not enough, the party leaders also had to contend with a potentially more dangerous erosion of power within their own ranks. Last week some 500 delegates from local Communist Party cells throughout Poland converged on a university lecture hall in the northern city of Torun, birthplace of the astronomer Copernicus, for an extraordinary conference on party reform. Speaker after speaker at the eight-hour meeting criticized Warsaw's Communist leadership for tailing to carry out its promised "renewal." Calling for greater democratization within the party, one delegate declared. "We are fighting for an idea. The top people...
Agnew not only faces a possible $350,000 judgment but also must contend with a multimillion-dollar libel suit filed by a former campaign manager and personal attorney who was named in his 1980 book Go Quietly . . .or Else. However, owing mainly to the international investment deals he packages, Agnew is believed to have a hefty in come. He owns a condominium in a waterfront high-rise in Ocean City, Md., and a lavish home in Palm Springs, Calif., where he surfaces sporadically to trim his golf handicap...