Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMERICA DOES FACE a severe immigration crisis. Haitians languishing in Florida prison camps and Salvadorans going hungry in the Arizona desert convey that message unmistakably. But to meet the crisis, we need a policy that at the very least avoids the kind of blatant contradiction that lawmakers have produced in recent weeks. That policy should be based on the simple observation that immigration to the United States is usually emigration from poverty and oppress on in the less-developed countries. S. 2222 utterly ignores this dimension of the problem. In fact, Simpson believes that migrants do not flee poverty...
...very, very boring existence for convicts. We sought an honest look." One of his most vivid portraits is of Charles Manson, convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969, who was photographed for the first time in his cell. At the start, Manson, whose drug-using, commune-organizing, desert-dwelling '60s life-style once made him America's most prominent disturbed person, was leery and unwilling. But during a second visit with Manson, Leifer managed to allay Manson's fears. In the competitive world of photojournalism, Leifer has always played to a tough audience, including Abraham Leifer...
...regional pride has been wounded and our heating bills have soared higher than a Texas oil gusher. Now that other states' aquifers have been sucked almost dry, they look to our Great Lakes for water.Never, I say! Let them eat their desert sand and drink their petroleum reserves...
Since 1976 the Algerian-backed guerrillas have been engaged in a bitter desert war with King Hassan II of Morocco over a 100,000-sq.-mi. former Spanish possession. At least 19 moderate African states were outraged at their organization's recognition of S.A.D.R., which they claim violated O.A.U. procedures...
...nations in September does not augur well for security. It also underlines the view of my friend, the Basra merchant, that the Shi'ites may not be as loyal to the Saddam government as we are told. There are two fronts in Iraq today: the battlefield in the desert, and the Shi'ite fifth column in the cities waiting for Khomeini's forces to arrive...