Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's program fair? Most Americans seem uncertain ? dubious. Many wonder whether their own sacrifice might simply be negated by the neighbor who fails to follow suit. A common complaint is that of Rita Gibson, a Boston delicatessen owner: "The guys with money will still be able to afford as much gas as they want. Only the little guys will suffer." Asks Peggy Matthews, a New York public relations executive: "Why should some poor apartment dweller sit and shiver when all the office buildings in Manhattan are shining brightly all night long?" Contends Werner Uebersax, a Catonsville (Md.) College...
More money and manpower would go to the hard-pressed INS, and the Federal Government could take other steps to tighten the net against the flood of illegal aliens. The U.S. could follow the example of other democracies and scrutinize aliens more closely at ports of entry. At the same time, border patrols must be increased to head off the far greater number of immigrants who enter the U.S. without ever being seen. The Social Security Administration could check on an immigrant's status before it issued him a card. As in Britain and France, local police might...
...brothers George, a lawyer, and Julius, an architect, on their return "home" to the Gambian village of Juffure. There Alex handed the traditional gift of kola nuts to the eldest member of the Kinte family, a distant relative. If all goes according to plan, many other root seekers will follow Haley's footsteps to Gambia. In fact, Gambian officials now expect some 2,000 tourists this summer. Among the spectacles being considered: a sound-and-light show about a slave escaping to freedom. Haley's triumph has been soured a bit recently by charges that some...
...between two physiotherapists working at a Palm Springs spa for the aged. Millie (Shelley Duvall) is a willing prisoner of the consumer culture. She thinks that if she faithfully makes all the recipes in the ladies' magazines and accepts their hints on home decoration, goodness and popularity will follow her all the days of her life. Indeed, wish being father to the deed, she is convinced that she is well liked and is entirely oblivious to the fact that none of her acquaintances can stand her. Except, that is, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), her roommate and disciple-a drifter...
...Gabriel Pita da Veiga y Sanz, 68 -the only member of the Cabinet who had also served under Franco-angrily resigned as Navy Minister, telling Suarez that he could not sit in a government that had legalized Communists. There were fears that a number of other senior officers would follow him out of the government. But at a stormy 3½-hour meeting of the Superior Council of the Army, the hard-liners backed down; the officers expressed their "revulsion" at the government's action, but they agreed to accept it out of a sense of "patriotism...