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They were part of a group of 45 people from El Salvador, aged 13 to 35, who boarded an air-conditioned bus on June 28, hoping to join the mounting exodus from their overcrowded, violence-torn country. About July 2, they reached the border at the southwest corner of Arizona. They were being shepherded by four or five Salvadoran and Mexican "coyotes"-men who sneak aliens across the border for as much as $2,000 each...
...disturbing exodus, Jews are emigrating in record numbers
...already left 22 dead and 55 missing, including Harry Truman, the feisty octogenarian who remained behind at his lodge near Spirit Lake, in the volcano's shadow. It was also taking a psychological toll. The renewed ashfall, along with the danger of fresh flooding and mudslides, forced an exodus of residents from the nearby towns of Cougar, Ariel and Amboy to makeshift refugee camps. It was their second evacuation, and the volcano's continuing assaults were beginning to fray tempers. Said Otis Bouchard, a gas station operator in Castlerock: "I'll tell you one thing...
Faculty defections usually occur on a sporadic basis. But at one point earlier this spring, it looked like a mass exodus...
Damages left by the war-and by Peking's invasion last year-are contributing factors to the country's economic woes. Another cause is the exodus of ethnic Chinese tradesmen and skilled workers, precipitated by a 1978 decree abolishing capitalist trade in the South. But Hanoi itself has virtually admitted that poor economic planning is the real reason for most of the failures...