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Whatever the exact numbers, there is little doubt that the tide of undocumented Hispanic aliens has reached flood stage. Many thousands have come from Central and South American countries like Guatemala, Colombia and Ecuador, but about 90% are Mexican. On foot, by air or in autos, they filter across the 2,000-mile-long southern U.S. border. Last year nearly 1 million illegal entrants were apprehended and deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. But, admits Los Angeles Police Officer Antonio Amador, "the only way we're going to stop them is to build a Berlin Wall...
...agenda, defined by the Camp David accords, will deal with points related to the normalization of relations between the two countries. For the Egyptians, the major problem is the schedule of Israeli military withdrawal from the Sinai. In addition, the exact parameters of demilitarized zones and the stationing of U.N. peacekeeping troops will have to be settled. So will the status of U.S. monitoring stations that have been operating in the Sinai since the interim accord...
...Israelis will seek to pin Egypt down on the exact nature of peace: that is, when ambassadors will be exchanged, what kind of commercial relations will be opened, and who will be permitted to use a new highway that will cross Israel and link the Sinai to Jordan. Finally, there is the question of where the treaty will be signed. Israel will opt for Jerusalem, Egypt for either Mount Sinai (Sadat's sentimental favorite) or Cairo. Failing agreement-and judging from obvious precedent-the site could turn out to be Washington...
...Imee's Yankee-go-home rhetoric Marcos' way of trying to exact an exorbitant rent for the bases? A 1947 U.S.Philippine agreement stipulated that the bases were to be rent free. Marcos may be calculating that the U.S. can now be intimidated into meeting his demands for more than $1 billion in rent over a five-year period. The President has insisted that Philippine foreign policy is not anti-American, but there is no doubt that he has been angered by official U.S. complaints about human rights violations under his dictatorial rule...
...John Cardinal Dearden, who himself survived a heart attack, recalls that John Paul's health was never mentioned in the conclave. One historian wondered if the Cardinals might not be submerged in guilt over the affliction of the man they put in office. Did the pressures of the job exact a sudden toll, as Cardinals Konig and Suenens suggested in the first shock of the news...