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This used to dismay the border patrol officers when they came tramping through the fields about once a week in search of illegal immigrants (they usually seized about five...
...from 1860 to 1890 -- but these were still mostly Northern Europeans: English, Dutch, Swedes, Norwegians. The third wave was even bigger: 16 million from 1890 to 1914, including a still unmatched record of 1.3 million in 1907 (when the total U.S. population was only 87 million). And to the dismay of the now established Irish and Germans, more than 80% of the newcomers were Eastern and Southern Europeans: Sicilians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Russian Jews fleeing the Czar's pogroms. This was the era in which Emma Lazarus wrote the Statue of Liberty's welcome to the huddled masses yearning to breathe...
...around and contemplate my fame or how popular I am. I know my manager sometimes looks at me with dismay when he tells me I've sold 6 million records or sold out in 17 minutes, and I just say, "O.K." I'm glad but that's not what interests me, numbers. What interests me is what happens in my confrontations with people every day and in my performances every night. Not figures on a piece of paper or how much money I have in the bank or any phenomenon. I don't think money has changed my life...
...council has so far been unable to achieve a reconciliation with Garang, who said his rebels would continue to fight until the government is entirely in the hands of civilians. His intransigence may lessen, however. Said a Western diplomat in Khartoum: "There is already a lot of dismay by southerners who would like to give the new government a chance...
...Congress that ultimately gave up on the Viet Nam War, rejecting the pleas of a Republican Administration for more military aid. It was Congress that suspended funds for the rebels fighting in Nicaragua, much to the dismay of the Reagan Administration. But in an emerging new debate, the roles seem to have been reversed. A drive has begun in Congress to provide military aid for the resistance forces opposing the occupation of Kampuchea by Vietnamese Communists, and now it is the Reagan Administration that is reluctant--at least...