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...take employment away from Americans or legal aliens is more complex. Many experts argue that workers without documents are concentrated in undesirable jobs that pay the minimum wage of $3.35 per hour, or sometimes less. Says Julian Simon, a professor of business and social science at the University of Maryland: "Illegals take jobs at which natives turn up their noses because they have other options." Rice's Huddle contends, however, that many illegal immigrants have enough skills to land jobs that pay more than the minimum wage. In a study of 200 illegal aliens working in construction in the Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Most Debated Issue | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...exactly a terrorist act, but in a week filled with political violence, it raised fresh concerns about the security of U.S. officials. Edward Doster, 20, a former Maryland racetrack stable boy, showed his dependent's pass at State Department headquarters and was allowed to enter without putting his gym bag through metal detectors. Upon reaching the seventh-floor "corridor of power," he went into a men's room and assembled a rifle from the bag's contents. Then he confronted his mother Carole, 44, a secretary in the office of State Department Counselor Edward Derwinski. After an exchange of words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Security: Shooting At Foggy Bottom | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

Representative Michael Barnes, a Maryland Democrat who has long been critical , of the President's Central American policy, says that intelligence briefings indicate a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua would not be easy. It would take two or three weeks for troops to take the urban centers and several thousand lives would be lost on both sides, Barnes was told. "But then the Sandinistas would control the countryside," he says. From there they could wage a guerrilla war that would require a prolonged military occupation and counterinsurgency campaign. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra was quoted as saying, "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Levels of Involvement | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...left for him in a garbage bag near Washington. The FBI kept John under continual surveillance for six months, patiently waiting for him to make an overt move. Finally, on May 19, they observed him staging a drop-off, similar to the one described by his ex- wife, in Maryland's Montgomery County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Brother Makes Three | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

Elvy and Langerman met in what they call their "psycho singles" in Hurlbut. They got along well, despite their different backgrounds, Elvy grew up on a farm in Maryland with his mother, a race car-drive Langerman grew up in the suburbs of Cambridge...

Author: By Eunice L. An, | Title: Harvard's Apple Two? | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

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