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...years,'' says pawnbroker Saul Frank. ''The blockade's a step back.'' INS officials sought to pacify angry critics last week by no longer calling it a blockade. Whatever it is called, approval for the crackdown in El Paso -- as high as 85% -- means that Reyes will probably maintain it unless he receives instructions from Washington to dismantle the program. To ease the economic burden, Roman Catholic bishops on both sides of the border last week urged a possible relaxation of the laws. One suggestion: granting temporary work permits to some Mexican day laborers and maids, so that they may cross...
...billion after Reagan's Star Wars speech of March 1983, there is no evidence that the answer this time is yes. Even if SDI could theoretically create a system that is survivable (i.e., invulnerable to a crippling pre-emptive attack) and cost-effective at the margin (cheaper to maintain than the enemy's offensive countermeasures)--and there is no evidence yet that this is possible--the situation would not last long. While one side is perfecting its defenses, the other is working feverishly on countermeasures--and very likely nuclear countermeasures, precisely because those are probably going to be the most...
...forbidden. Since purpose would be a matter of declared intention, the American SDI would be outlawed, while the Soviets could continue testing huge high-energy lasers in Central Asia by claiming that they were for medical purposes. Even SDI skeptics like Sidney Drell believe that the U.S. should maintain a vigorous--and very purposeful--research program in strategic defense for two reasons: as insurance against breakthroughs that the Soviets might come up with in their program and as a hedge against the remote possibility that someone, someday, really does discover a defensive technology that diminishes the advantage of offense...
...were found to have used advance knowledge of the Government's quarterly estimates of economic growth for personal gain, while the third passed along the information for an outsider's gain. It was the first time ever for such punitive action. Said Baldrige: ''We have a duty to maintain credibility and integrity.'' The firings came after an eight-month investigation following charges that the GNP estimates, which sharply affected the performance of U.S. financial markets on the day of their release, were leaked to Wall Street traders twice last year. The results of the inquest were severely disquieting. At least...
...State President Botha justified its nationwide scope by charging that the ''radical and revolutionary elements'' planning the Soweto commemoration ''pose a real danger for all population groups in our country.'' Said he: ''The ordinary laws of the land are inadequate to ensure the security of the public and to maintain public order...