Word: influxes
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Yesterday Eck, Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion, spoke to a small but eager audience about religious pluralism and the influx of immigrants who practice Asian and Mid-Eastern faiths...
Even after the Vietnamese decamped, skinheads fought nightly battles with the police. Local officials sought to excuse the inept handling of the riots by blaming an influx of rightists from Berlin and Hamburg. But local residents didn't help matters much. Crowds of Rostockers let the rock throwers disappear into their midst when chased by police, cheering on the skinheads and screaming "Germany for the Germans!" Hundreds of rioters were arrested, and hundreds of police were injured in the fighting...
...supportive network of relatives and friends was typical of Arkansas clannishness. The state's white population is homogeneous and inbred. The base of its stable demographics was an influx of native-born Protestants from nearby states in the 19th century. It still has few foreign-born citizens -- or Jews (0.1% of the population) or Roman Catholics (3.1%, about a ninth of the national average). It is a Bible-reading and conservative state that passed one of the last creationism laws to teach an alternative to evolution...
...pulling back. FBI sources, for example, say that this year alone Russian agents have tried to recruit several U.S. citizens as spies, including a sailor based at the U.S. Navy's giant Hampton Roads facility in Norfolk, Va. Wayne Gilbert, the FBI's counterintelligence chief, complains of a continuing influx of Russian agents disguised as businessmen and tourists. In the Belgian episode, SVR spies had targeted a sensitive nato battlefield communications system. Elsewhere in Europe, the Russians have shown interest in everything from electronic banking systems to civilian computer software with potential military applications...
Bush seems haunted by Jimmy Carter's experience with the 1980 Mariel boatlift, during which 124,815 Cubans washed up on Florida's shores -- and the Democratic President lost the election. "Mariel definitely left a shadow. Washington has been nervous all year about the Haitian influx," contends Father Richard Ryscavage, head of the U.S. Catholic Conference's Office of Migration and Refugee Services, which provides social and legal services to some 3,500 Haitian refugees...