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Last week Bern decreed that at least 10% of all foreign residents must evacuate Switzerland by the middle of next year. Moreover, the annual quota of seasonal migrant workers was cut from 206,000 to 145,000. Not only the poorer Mediterraneans are affected; some 30 wealthy foreign inhabitants in Geneva's lakeside-villa set have been given six months' notice because they are not "economically useful," though police have carefully left alone celebrities like Charlie Chaplin...
...that he may be the next victim. And even if he is filled with escapist envy for the gypsy's irresponsible lot, his conscience, drummed by a thousand pleas, dampens his delight. In the climate of today's opinion, play-gypsies-play translates into the specter of migrant urban nonworkers, who are just about as amusing as migrant agricultural workers, and everyone knows how funny they...
...purpose of the Díaz Ordaz visit was a round of private talks with Johnson on trade, migrant labor, the Alliance for Progress, and the like. But before they began, the Mexicans found out how extensive L.B.J. hospitality can be. Lyndon jockeyed out to meet the Díaz Ordaz plane on the asphalt runway behind the ranch house in his electric golf cart, the same one in which he gave Lady Bird a few anxious moments careening around the grounds the next day (see cut). Díaz Ordaz was ready for him, and with a grin even...
...golf course while the narrator was either on a hill behind a drive-in movie with a girl or on a barren shore, d) that the friend had started writing bad poems while in the hospital anyway, and e) that the narrator has had some connection with California migrant workers. But the chronology and emotional connections are hopelessly muddled...
...addition, the U.S. Children's Bureau estimates, there are another 500,000 children twelve years old or under who are entrusted to brothers or sisters, thus often keeping them from school. Then there are the 450,000 children of migrant workers who are either taken to the fields with their parents or left behind in untended shacks...