Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refugees to settle annually in America and become citizens after five years of permanent residency. But last fiscal year, using emergency "parole" power, Attorney General Griffin Bell permitted entry of 18,000 Soviet Jews and 25,000 Indochinese. In March he announced another such parole: 25,000 Soviet and Eastern European refugees (mostly Jews) and 35,000 Indochinese will be allowed in by October. Bell is uncomfortable with such an improvised approach to refugee admissions. He strongly supports the Administration's proposed Refugee Act of 1979, sponsored in the Senate by Edward Kennedy, which will raise the normal refugee...
...Modern Middle Eastern Civilization: Contemporary Problems in Perspective," Muhsin S. Mahdi...
...Harvard lights came roaring into this season a month ago shouting "no prisoners," signifying their determination to sweep a swath through Eastern rowing without mercy. But this powerful eight is regrouping for a second charge down the mountainside this week after Yale forced a hasty retreat last Sunday...
...this reckless band of Harvard rowers is not prepared to concede control of the territory to those upstarts from New Haven, nor are they ready to give up their title as Eastern Sprints champions...
...gears up. Canadians, often offended by his intellectual arrogance, were surprised when he singlehandedly turned around the country's mood from one of cynicism to one of confidence. The opposition and Progressive Conservative Party leader at the time was Robert Stanfield, a long-time member of Parliament from Eastern Canada. Stanfield's strategy rested upon a poorly-conceived, loosely-defined economic platform designed to control inflation. Stanfield said he planned to institute wage and price controls--but he didn't explain how he would implement them or how they would work. Trudeau hammered at Stanfield's equivocal policy, made leadership...