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Every week as many as 600 Haitians land in rickety craft on south Florida beaches. For more than two years, lax official attitudes and a tangle of litigation prevented the INS from rounding up the illegals and shipping them home. But a court in December freed the INS to throw out unauthorized Haitians, and the agency has just begun doing...
Though images of cosmonauts and astronauts tumbling and frolicking in weightlessness suggest that the living is easy, Salyut showed that the body undergoes radical changes when freed from the influence of gravity. Some changes are so severe that they could imperil the lives of long-term space voyagers once they return to earth. Many observers of the U.S. space program, including scientists within NASA, feel that in contrast to the Soviets, the U.S. space agency has paid far too little attention to what happens to the human body during long periods in orbit...
Last week, after years of intensive lobbying by large money center banks, the U.S. Federal Reserve authorized banks to set up international banking facilities (l.B.F.s) in the U.S. Banks will be permitted on Dec. 3 to create l.B.F.s that will be freed of the key regulations that govern U.S. institutions, namely minimum reserve requirements and limits on the level of interest that they can pay. The old system, for example, required banks to keep a portion of deposits, say 8%, in reserve with the Federal Reserve, regardless of whether the deposits came from domestic or foreign sources. On a foreign...
...fate of two others is unknown. That leaves Jesuit Dominic Tang, who in 1950 was appointed apostolic administrator, or temporary head, of the Canton diocese by Pope Pius XII and subsequently spent 22 years in a Communist prison. With church conditions improving dramatically in China, Tang was freed last year. Surprisingly, he also won the approval of the province's government to resume duties as administrator of his diocese...
...blessings on everyone. The writers, freed of the fake historical-biographical imperative that weighed down their earlier effort, have lightened up and smartened up. Less is distinctly more when it comes to dialogue in this kind of movie, and the brisk inventiveness of the plotting helps too. Decent acting in movies of this sort is, of course, merely an extra added attraction-a sort of dish night for the sobersides. But Christopher Reeve makes his transitions from Clark Kent to Superman something more than a matter of fluffing up his cape; the man has a quiet sense of irony about...