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Mayor Billy Davis of Smithville, Ark. (pop. 113), expected the worst when half a dozen police cars converged on his mountain hamlet 125 miles northeast of Little Rock late last Friday afternoon. "They weren't talking," said Davis, "so I knew something was about to happen." The officials, including four state troopers, a dozen federal marshals and FBI agents, the sheriff and three deputies, headed four miles north of town and set up roadblocks. Then they drove a mile down a dirt road to an isolated house that resembled a bunker. There, the nationwide search for Gordon W. Kahl...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service's Phoenix district, knew things were bad. The number of illegal aliens caught in Arizona had climbed sharply, breaking records nearly every month and hitting an alltime high of 11,200 in April. Then Gustafson took a night helicopter tour of the notorious 66-mile border stretch from the Pacific inland past Chula Vista, Calif., where the Border Patrol picked up 49,511 interlopers in April, up 46% over the same period last year. When the pilot turned on the chopper's spot lights, hundreds of Mexicans could be seen striding across the desolate...
...crunch, and with other countries in Central and South America racked by political instability, the steady stream of illegal immigrants is turning into a flood. "Simply put," Attorney General William French Smith told a congressional subcommittee, "we've lost control of our borders." Along the 2,000-mile southern frontier, seizures are 30% to 50% higher than last spring. The northern border is emerging as a convenient back door for refugees from the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East, most of whom can enter Canada without a visa; the flow there is up by 30% to 40%. INS Border...
...taking a year off from college, Dixon was the sole representative of the Harvard men's track team at the Nationals last weekend in Houston. Earlier this season he ran a 3:57.6 over 1600 meters as part of a relay, a performance which translates into a 3:58.9 mile...
...Crimson mile record is the one honor which has eluded Dixon. Fifteen years ago Jim Baker covered the distance in 4:00.2, and no one has topped it since. Because of the metric system, Dixon hasn't had many chances, but few doubt he has the capability to run a sub-four-minute mile. Dixon is likely to have his final chance when he last dons a Crimson uniform for the Cambridge/Oxford meet in England 10 days from now. For Adam Dixon, an athlete who will be sorely missed, the mile record would just be icing on the cake...