Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real problem with Carter's proposal is that it relies on stop-gap measures that fail to address the underlying causes of the illegal immigrant problem. As long as there are millions of impoverished, frustrated Mexicans, there will be illegal immigration. No law can stop that...
...forces' brutality toward the civilian population was not common to all wars. They saw the racism toward the Vietnamese, the army's official refusal to acknowledge the damage the army was inflicting on a civilization. But it took correspondents a while to understand the size of the gap between official doublespeak and reality...
There is one major gap in Dispatches: Herr never makes any attempt to examine the lives of the Vietnamese, never relates any interviews, never gauges the extent to which they supported the South Vietnamese government. Unlike, say, Gloria Emerson, who recently published Winners and Losers, he is interested in how Americans were fighting it, what it was like for the U.S. soldiers whose experiences were so warped by the vocabulary of the public relations people. There was a whole other reality in Indochina, but Herr leaves it to other writers who had more contact with the Vietnamese and Cambodians...
Convention members say they have hopes that if elected, Holway and Kennedy will take the liberal side more often than not, but the candidates want to preserve their options and try to work with everyone. Whether or not any challenger can bridge the gap between the two factions is questionable. Koocher says his experience as an Independent pushed him into the Convention camp quickly. If anyone manages to remain neutral, he will be quite an exception to the rule of Cambridge politics...
...gap in the polls has narrowed, both candidates have imported big-name backers across state lines?including, in Bateman's case, the peripatetic Liz Taylor. The same day that Rosalynn Carter was saying, "Brendan, we need you," in southern New Jersey, former President Gerald Ford appeared upstate in Morris County. Still the same old Jerry, he told the crowd: "I'm glad to be here to help you get Ray Bateman elected Governor of Michigan." To which Bateman responded, "Thank you, but I'm having enough trouble in New Jersey...