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Governor Pete Wilson of California and I have something in common. At one time in our lives, we both liked cheap labor. I did 15 years ago when I was looking for a baby-sitter. Mary Poppins was too expensive, so I settled for Elba. All I had to do was paper over immigration questions with work permits and I had someone who looked after my daughter as if she were her own, cooked the meals, washed the windows and swabbed the bathroom -- all for minimum wage...
...times have grown ugly. Blaming illegal immigrants -- indeed, immigrants -- for the tarnish on the Golden State is a centerpiece of the Wilson re- election campaign. He supports the draconian Proposition 187, known as S.O.S. (Save Our State), which would deny Elba a doctor if she got sick and her children their DPT shots and a place in first grade. Teachers and health- care workers would turn into snitches, asked to turn in any child suspected of having parents here illegally. Children would be encouraged to tell on their parents...
...return of Bobby Fischer, the biggest comeback since Napoleon sailed a single-masted flat-bottom out of Elba (on his way, mind you, to Waterloo), has been widely noted but quite misunderstood. After 20 years of self-imposed seclusion, the greatest chess player of his time returns to life by way of a rematch with Boris Spassky (the man from whom he took the world championship in 1972) in, of all places, Yugoslavia. The picture flashed around the world is that of Fischer spitting on a U.S. government order charging him with violating the U.N. embargo on Yugoslavia. The papers...
Residents of Alabama, Georgia and the Florida panhandle must have thought of Noah as up to 16 in. of rain poured down in 48 hours. In Elba, Ala. (pop. 4,355), the torrent breached the levee holding off the Pea River. No one was killed, but 3,000 had to evacuate the area. Elsewhere, bridges washed away, and caskets floated up from the rain-loosened soil of a Selma cemetery...
...Most of his gentle, bearded face had been torn away by an M-16 bullet. Next to him was Father Segundo Montes, director of the University of Central America's human rights project, and a few feet away sprawled the school's rector, Father Ignacio Ellacuria. The priests' cook, Elba Julia Ramos, lay nearby, her brown dress curled around her waist...