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...Mexico is either unemployed or underemployed. Most of the illegal immigrants enter simply by crossing the Mexican border, either on their own or by paying up to $2,000 to a professional smuggler. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has only 2,100 agents stationed along the 2,000-mile border, and no more than 400 are on duty at any one time. Border patrol officials estimate that they manage to catch at best only one out of two illegal aliens who try to make it across. Once caught, an illegal alien can drag out deportation proceedings for months. Once deported...
...Harvard women's track team closed out the 1981 outdoor season in fine style last weekend with strong performances, especially in the two-mile relay, at the EAIAW Championships hosted by Penn State...
Harvard placed third in the two-mile relay, won by overall champions Penn State in 8:46, but was just edged out of second place in the last 100 yards by Georgetown's team, described as "very tough" by head coach Pappy Hunt. However, the 9:04 time run by the team of co-captain Becky Rogers, Grace de Fries, Lucy Ashley, and co-captain Martha Clabby shaved 1.69 seconds off the old Harvard outdoor record, set at last year's Easterns...
...Both John [assistant coach John Babington] and I were really pleased with how the girls did," Hunt said yesterday. It was Ashley's first time running the two-mile relay, and her 2:18 split was consequently her personal best...
...prime beneficiaries of the energy boom are the area's farmers. Neil Doornbos, 85, and his wife Alice, 81, retired from farming in 1954. Their land, though, is only a mile north of the site of last September's gas discovery, so a 17-story rig is now pushing a drilling bit deep into a cornfield 150 yds. beyond their back door. If the drillers strike it rich, so will Neil and Alice; the couple will get a one-sixteenth share of the production. -By Christopher Byron...