Word: midnight
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...would encourage more illegal immigration. But the amnesty only applies to persons who entered the country before Jan. 1, 1978. It grants only official residency status--not citizenship--and forbids food stamps and Medicaid to any such persons. Still, even the limited amnesty would relieve undocumented workers' fears of midnight raids by brutal immigration enforcement officers...
Street skirmishes flared for the next eight hours. Some of the demonstrators, who built barricades of benches and trash bins, attacked the ZOMOs with rocks, slingshots and Molotov cocktails that turned at least two police vans into smoldering hulks. By the time the struggle quieted down around midnight, the streets of Gdansk were littered with broken glass, paving stones and empty tear-gas canisters...
...toward its next destination, the North Pole. Fiennes and Burton navigated the Yukon River by motorized rubber raft, sailed 3,000 miles along the Northwest Passage in the whaler and camped for the four-month Arctic night at Ellesmere Island. They reached the North Pole by snowmobile just before midnight last April 10 and celebrated with well-chilled champagne and a chocolate Easter...
...recalls how his meetings with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat were arranged "like a pleasant kidnaping," Stewart said, with a P.L.O. representative and armed guard appearing some time past midnight and whisking Stewart off into the darkness. Once at the meeting, Stewart would find Arafat's energy unflagging and "his determination to regain a homeland for his people absolute." He saw the P.L.O. leader as having "a shrewd talent for judging people, something that makes him a better politician and diplomat than military commander...
...life is driving him crazy. It is a story so familiar that it requires almost no dialogue to tell. Simple-minded songs from the Pink Floyd's 1979 five-time platinum seller do the job, along with banal, if sometimes lively, imagery supplied by Director Alan Parker (Fame, Midnight Express). He has warmed over and slicked up an anthology of '60s cliches, which may engender a certain nostalgia for the drear old days in those who endured them. Today's adolescents sit gap-mouthed and squirmless through them, mistaking them, it would seem, for profundities...