Word: exoduses
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...with the exodus from Cambridge will come the biannual transportation crisis, with Harvard students forced to discover new and creative ways to make the two-and-a-half hour trek to New Haven...
...Dominican exodus has grown along with the country's economic troubles. A huge foreign debt, high inflation and a 30% unemployment rate make it nearly impossible for people to make a living at home. Cutbacks in the U.S. sugar quota last year crippled the chief export industry and displaced thousands of agricultural workers. The refugee flight serves as an escape valve for social discontent, as well as a source of foreign earnings: the emigrants send home an estimated $280 million each year. Concedes Andres Moreta Damiron, the Dominican consul in San Juan: "Our government needs this injection of money...
...Customs Service has made technology smuggling a high priority. Through a special project called Operation Exodus, started in 1981, the agency is pursuing more than 800 cases of high-tech thievery and arms smuggling. In one recent case, Customs unraveled an alleged plot to smuggle a sophisticated side-scan sonar device, an invaluable tool for tracking submarines. Made in New Hampshire, the device was bought by a Louisiana firm and shipped to Norway, then to Japan. A Japanese company was installing the device on a Soviet fishing trawler when officials closed...
Since January, Italy has been host to an estimated 4,500 Poles who hold easily acquired Italian tourist visas and have no intention of returning home. Pope John Paul II is concerned about the plight of his compatriots and "is doing everything to discourage this exodus," according to a Roman Catholic charity official. But because Italy adheres to the Helsinki human rights accord, officials have ruled out cutbacks in tourist visas for Poles...
...thorny Moses, an unfinished twelve-tone opera freely adapted from Exodus, turned out to be a sensation. It begins with a powerful interpolated silent prologue. A community of black-suited, ringleted and bearded Hasidim is peaceably gathered on a set that includes a large menorah and Torah scrolls and, on the sides, a Jewish cemetery. Suddenly, khaki-suited, helmeted storm troopers rush in and desecrate the scene. The swift brutality was a provocative coup de theatre -- especially in Austria, where memories of the 1938 Nazi invasion are still fresh and where former Wehrmacht Officer Kurt Waldheim now presides...