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...Federal Government will not shoulder the burden alone: INS has turned for help to such groups as the Presiding Bishop's Fund, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, World Relief and the U.S. Catholic Conference. More than 250 organizations have been approved; they are expected to advise and assist 2 million aliens at more than 500 sites around the country. In Brooklyn, N.Y., all 221 Catholic churches have been enlisted. The parishes are handing out kits containing instructions on legalization, an application form and sample letters to landlords, employers, utilities and schools that can be used to verify U.S. residence...
...time the contributions began, it was not illegal for the U.S. to solicit money for the contras. Why, then, did McFarlane take pains to write about the contributions when he was on the point of taking his own life? Says Garment: "Bud wanted to make complete disclosure. He wanted to clear the air." A source who has seen the letters adds that McFarlane "felt he may have created the atmosphere" that prompted North and others to solicit funds for the contras that were at best legally dubious. In any case, the letters make clear McFarlane's despair. Says one source...
...sweatshirt, but lately Designer Norma Kamali has been perspiring about her unwanted association with a different fashion tradition: the sweatshop. Last week the New York State department of labor said it had slapped Kamali with a record $10,000 fine for illegally employing workers to cut and sew garments for her at home. It was the first time a big-name designer had been singled out for breaking the state's 1935 sweatshop law. Kamali stopped using the homeworkers, mostly Hispanic and Asian, when state labor officials began in December to look into complaints from the International Ladies Garment Workers...
...part in the burgeoning Iranscam investigations deepened McFarlane's depression. He has testified more fully than anyone else. But, says his lawyer Leonard Garment, "the more information he gave, the more he became an object of scrutiny." Another friend adds that "he is a loyal ((former)) Marine suddenly thrust into the role of John Dean," the Nixon White House Counsel whose Senate testimony fueled the Watergate scandal...
...McFarlane has served his country long andfaithfully, and never with greater distinctionthan by coming forward and being the only one togive a full story, under oath and without accessto a single page of his official record, of theIranian arms sale," Garment said. "I am sure thecountry will simply wish him well...