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...defendants are resident aliens of Portuguese descent. Some speak English only haltingly, and they wear earphones to hear a Portuguese translation of the proceedings. Their background has tugged hard at the seams of ethnic tranquillity in New Bedford, a onetime whaling capital and mill town that in recent years had fallen on difficult times. Portuguese Americans, who make up more than half of the population of 98,000, have played a major part in rejuvenating the local fishing industry. But following the attack, anti-Portuguese slurs popped up on local radio call-in shows, as well as in countless private...
...defendants include three U.S. citizens of Chinese descent: Kuang-shin Lin, 38, of Lincroft, N.J.; Kwong Allen Yeung, 34, of Cortland, N.Y.; and David Tsai, 30, of New York City. Also charged are two Hong Kong residents: Da-chuan Zheng, 41, and his sister-in-law Jing-li Zhang...
...NASA decided to postpone the launch at least for a day while ground controllers probed the Westar accident. If Indonesia requested a deferral until a later mission, the shuttle would have to bring the satellite back to earth. The added weight would speed the shuttle's descent on landing, possibly forcing NASA to scrub a Florida touchdown...
...Porter had written the classic "list" song, Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love with its chromatic descent and brilliant cascade of double-entendres: "The most refined lady bugs do it,/ When a gentleman calls,/ Moths in your rugs do it,/ What's the use of moth balls?" For a subsequent show he wrote You Do Something to Me. Its echoing rhymes ("Do do that voodoo that you do so well") were to become a Porter hallmark. But they also betrayed a lifelong preference for facility over feeling...
...United States Commission on Civil Rights as being "characterized by fierce independence," the new one as "a mouthpiece for Reagan." It attacks the Commission votes against quotas and busing, and for the continuation of a study of the effect of affirmative action on Americans of Eastern and Southern European descent. And asserts (acting as a mouthpiece for the current minority of the Commission?) that all this was done without "long deliberations." The editorial ignores the reality that there has been a split in the supporters of civil rights on issues such as quotas and busing since the early...