Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greens. With their strong positions against nuclear power, NATO missiles and environmental pollution, the Greens appear to have taken a substantial number of votes away from the Social Democrats. Said Johannes Rau, the Social Democratic premier of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia: "Our job is to lure our voters back from the Greens and to achieve an absolute majority of our own." If that effort means taking the same position as the Greens on many issues, West German politics will grow even more polarized. Curiously, one of the few people who did not take the environmentalists' success...
...pollos aboard buses, drove them to a border crossing and herded them through a wire gate back into Mexico. Nearly all would try to slip across the border again, many only hours later the same night. They would keep coming until they eventually escaped to pursue the irresistible lure of jobs that are unavailable in Mexico. Says Alan Eliason, chief of border patrols in that section of California: "We are overwhelmed. Congress has to come to grips with the problem...
...have legislated penalties against employers who hire illegal immigrants, with little or no effect. California has had such a law on its books since 1971, and it probably draws more pollos than any other state. Moreover, these critics say, even a limited amnesty would set a precedent that might lure still more aliens across the border in the hope that if they could evade the INS long enough, they too might someday become legal residents. Immigration experts in Texas apprehensively note that in the past, false rumors of amnesty have spurred an immediate jump in the numbers of aliens heading...
...lure the Indians back home, the Guatemalan government has announced plans to build a series of "model villages" that will provide housing, schools and health clinics. "We offer clear guarantees to those who desire to return," President Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores declared at the inauguration of the first model village, Chacaj, last March. But no more than 300 refugees have accepted the offer. Most remain skeptical of the regime's intentions: they note that returning families must register with the army and answer questions about why they left and where they went...
...called the press conference, the first in more than a year, to counter recent propaganda by a government-sponsored organization that disingenuously calls itself the Anti-Zionist Committee. Soviet Army General David Dragunsky, the committee's chairman, boasted to reporters last month that "the Zionist hope to lure Jews out of the Soviet Union has collapsed." According to official figures, Soviet emigration to Israel has indeed slowed to a trickle, from a high of 50,000 in 1979 to just 220 in the first four months of this year. For the many who cannot leave, said Viktor Fulmakt...