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...real terror in California for Mexican migrants is not their "opulent" employers, but the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The INS uses harsh policies and a heavy hand to keep Mexican migrants out and deport them if they manage to enter. In this way the INS, like Miss Grossman, forgets the economic necessity which drives both employers and employed...
Begin with a birth: a baby-faced soldier, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), is delivered from the womb of a transport plane into the harsh light of Viet Nam. He will find death soon enough: four patrols in the film, four wrenching revelations. On Chris' first night patrol he watches, paralyzed with fear, as the enemy approaches and another new boy dies. On a second patrol the platoon enters a village that might be My Lai; anger goads Chris to spit bullets at the feet of a petrified Vietnamese, and before the day is over the group's leader, Sergeant Barnes...
Although conditions were less harsh in France than in some other parts of Europe, the cold snap there caused a death toll of at least 31. One potential French victim of the cold was saved in the northern city of Amiens when a vagrant discovered a newborn girl abandoned at the city dump. He called for help, and the girl was rushed to the hospital. Doctors rated her chances of survival excellent and named her Violette because of her purplish complexion when she was first brought...
...countries of northern Europe, more accustomed to harsh winters, suffered fewer casualties than their southern neighbors. West Germany reported five deaths. The four Scandinavian countries together reported a total of five exposure-related deaths. Nonetheless, the chill caused severe hardships. More than half of Denmark's 200 inhabited islands were cut off from the mainland. Icebreakers had to work day and night to free some 15 vessels from the frozen sound between Denmark and Sweden. Following a blizzard in the Swedish province of Skane, where temperatures dipped to -11 degrees, people were warned that they risked death if they ventured...
...Wills, "speaking for labor, but ((acting as)) a strikebreaker doing the will of the producers." When his movie career faltered, he became host of a television series, General Electric Theater, and stumped cross-country, speaking for the company. After eight years, he was summarily dismissed, but Reagan has no harsh words for GE; after all, by the time he was fired in 1962, he had reached a new constituency...