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But was that prejudice? "Heck, no," insists his old antagonist, Vincent + Venditti. "If Chet wasn't a minority person, the relationship would have been the same. He wasn't the first black manager I worked for." Venditti says his run-ins with Howell were not the reason he transferred to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: When The Boss Is Black | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Several hundred Central Americans arriving last week in the U.S. got a nasty welcome from the Immigration and Naturalization Service: they were promptly incarcerated. Under a new hard-line policy, refugees are detained while awaiting action on their request for political asylum, then deported if rejected by the INS. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration: Hard Times for Refugees | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Since the INS's get-tough edict took effect, the number of Central Americans seeking asylum at the INS processing center near Bayview has plunged from a high of 967 a day to 313 a week. Of these, only three arrivals, or about 1% of the total, were granted asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration: Hard Times for Refugees | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Similarly, for more than a century the descendants of the freedmen have debated what name they should bear as a people. In every instance, a shift in appellation coincided with a new stage in the struggle for equality. In the years after the Civil War, the terms black and negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of a Good Name | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Meanwhile, harsh sentiment against the refugees is growing. "Nobody knows who all these people are," says Brownsville trailer-court owner Bob White. "They could be terrorists, or bandits, or typhoid carriers." Harlingen Mayor Bill Card says his city decided to expel the INS from a registration post to send a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Immigration Mess | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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