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...surpassing the previous record, set in all of 1974, by at least 245 deaths. The bleak performance has ruffled even the most intrepid flyers, and now is raising disturbing issues about flight overcrowding and inattention to safety that could give airlines a bumpy ride in the months ahead. "The 'driver' is economics, not safety," Charles Miller, a former safety inspector for the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, charged last week...
Many state and local agencies take a similar approach. Both Valenzuela and his wife Elvira, 38, secured California drivers' licenses by showing their Mexican birth certificates and by passing a driving test and a written examination in Spanish. When the Valenzuelas registered their cars they needed no immigration documents. The same was true when they borrowed money from a major California bank, first to buy a car and later to nurture their business. "Anybody asks, I just say 'American citizen,' and I show them my driver's license and Social Security card," Valenzuela says...
...blue jalopy creaks and groans, its bumper nearly scraping the roadway of the Good Neighbor Bridge, which spans the Rio Grande between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. The driver has given 29 fellow Mexicans a free lift south because he can bring five cartons of cigarettes into Mexico for each passenger in his car. Next comes a pickup carrying six teenage Mexican girls, all trim in their red vests. They are returning to Juarez from their classes at a Roman Catholic girls school in El Paso. Behind them is Yolanda Rivas, who is heading home after an eight-hour shift...
Manuel Martins Simtoes had been a truck driver in Lisbon, but when he got to Newark in 1974, he worked on a construction gang during the week and waited on tables weekends. Eventually, he saved enough money to buy a restaurant. "The building was really broken down and dirty," Simoes says, "but my wife and I rebuilt the whole thing and put in a private dining room and a barbecue in the back." After seven years, he sold the place for a $185,000 profit and returned to Lisbon to set himself and his brother up in business and live...
That view may be too optimistic. A major obstacle is the booming trade in phony documents. Fake driver's licenses sell in Los Angeles for $60 to $65 each. Doctored "green cards" go for as little as $25 apiece. Nothing in Simpson's new bill requires employers to take responsibility for the authenticity of such documents, although the Senator says that he would also favor, under certain circumstances, the introduction of a new tamperproof Social Security card. Barring such a sweeping development, employer sanctions seem likely, if anything, to give the phony-documents industry a further < boost. Thus Simpson also...