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...granting longtime illegal aliens legal status, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ((NATION, May 4)) is moving in the right direction. These immigrants came to the U.S. for the same reason our ancestors did: to be free. They saw a new frontier and a chance to leave unemployment and poverty. How can we slam the door on them...
...powerful new rocket booster sparks fresh talk of a Soviet shuttle flight and highlights Moscow' s high- frontier technology...
...deserted field eight miles from the West German frontier, Vladimir donned flying goggles and wobbled aloft, rising no higher than 90 ft. to avoid being spotted by radar. Minutes later, two Czechoslovak air force Albatros jets closed in but turned away as he entered West German airspace. Vladimir kept flying until his fuel was gone, finally sputtering to earth in a potato field 19 miles from the border. "I've seen a lot of escapees," said a regional police official, "but this fellow had a real pioneer spirit...
Play the same game, with a reverse twist. Wander through American history and imagine what it might have been like without certain sinners -- without, say, men who have had an appetite for women other than their wives. Sudden voids. The New Deal and the New Frontier might vanish, for example -- both Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy had relationships with other women. If all the adulterers who ever served in the U.S. Congress were to have their lives and legislative works obliterated from history, America might revert to forest. Perhaps the Supreme Court would remain intact, its virtue protected by advanced...
Even nonmilitary aircraft must take into careful account the presence of the guerrillas and their sophisticated weaponry. The 85 miles between Kabul and the frontier city of Khost, near the border with Pakistan, requires a zigzagging flight of nearly an hour and a half. Taking off from the capital, lumbering Soviet-made An-26 transports climb steadily in defensive spirals. From pods mounted on their fuselages, they trail bright orange flares to divert heat-seeking Stinger missiles that the mujahedin rebels might launch from hidden positions below...