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...Phoenix district, knew things were bad. The number of illegal aliens caught in Arizona had climbed sharply, breaking records nearly every month and hitting an alltime high of 11,200 in April. Then Gustafson took a night helicopter tour of the notorious 66-mile border stretch from the Pacific inland past Chula Vista, Calif., where the Border Patrol picked up 49,511 interlopers in April, up 46% over the same period last year. When the pilot turned on the chopper's spot lights, hundreds of Mexicans could be seen striding across the desolate, scrub-covered fields deeper into...
...drive to find secure paper supplies for its magazines. The forest-products unit grew into a major producer of pulp and paperboard, although it never manufactured paper for the publications. In 1973 Time Inc. acquired Temple Industries, a large Texas producer of building products, and in 1978 it added Inland Container Corp., an Indianapolis-based manufacturer of containers and containerboard...
...Inland the story is worse. Each year nearly 4.4 million acres of forest are destroyed. In Central America, vast tracts have been converted to pasture land, largely to raise beef for the U.S. market, while natural grasslands in Venezuela and Colombia go largely unused. Still another reason for loss of forests is the in creasing incidence of slash-and-burn agriculture. As impoverished peasants lose their traditional lands to the spreading single-crop plantations, they move higher and higher up forested mountains, clearing away timber for firewood and subsistence farming. In Haiti and Jamaica, the results have been disastrous...
...talks with the union's leaders, but the presidents of the union locals subsequently voted down that cut. Last week's agreement was approved 169 to 63 by the local chiefs representing workers in the seven largest companies: U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Jones & Laughlin, Republic, Armco, National and Inland...
Scrape of feathers against the box. The self gathers bravely, before dispersion inland, burial in a cabbage patch...