Word: ince
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...flung as Australia and Bolivia, Germany and Viet Nam. Among the earliest of these new arrivals to America are Assistant Art Director Arturo Cazeneuve, from Argentina, and Layout Chief Burjor Nargolwala, from India. Both became U.S. citizens while serving in the Army during World War II. Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, who contributed a two-page Essay to the issue, came from Austria in 1940 by way of France, Morocco and Portugal. Assistant Managing Editor John Elson was born in Vancouver. His father, an American journalist, brought the family from Canada to Washington...
Despite the stronger security measures, however, aviation officials agreed that piecemeal attempts to combat air terrorism would not be sufficient. "The battle requires international solidarity," said Erich Becker, the chairman of Frankfurt Main Airport Inc. Toward that end, the governing council of the 156- member International Civil Aviation Organization convened in Montreal late last week to review airport security. The group will meet again later this month to discuss ways to improve inspection procedures...
...estimated 17.6 million, with roughly 60% tracing their ancestry to Mexico and the rest to Puerto Rico, Cuba, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela and about two dozen other countries of Central and South America. Fully two-thirds were immigrants, according to a study by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc., a New York market-research and polling firm, that was commissioned by the SIN Television Network, a national grouping of Spanish-language stations.* Some 24% had entered during the previous ten years alone. These figures are open to argument, since they include Puerto Ricans on the mainland, who legally...
FOOTNOTE: *Copyright 1984. Used by permission of SIN, Inc...
When asked about such issues, Americans sound troubled; their answers are ambiguous and sometimes contradictory. In a TIME poll taken by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc.,* only 27% agreed with the idea that "America should keep its doors open to people who wish to immigrate to the U.S. because that is what our heritage is all about." Two-thirds agreed that "this philosophy is no longer reasonable, and we should strictly limit the number." Some 56% said the number of legal immigrants was too high, and 75% wanted illegal immigrants to be tracked down. On the other hand, 66% approved...