Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastern European refugees (mostly Jews) and 35,000 Indochinese will be allowed in by October. Bell is uncomfortable with such an improvised approach to refugee admissions. He strongly supports the Administration's proposed Refugee Act of 1979, sponsored in the Senate by Edward Kennedy, which will raise the normal refugee allotment to 50,000 per year.* It will also give the President authority to handle "emergency" situations of unexpected numbers seeking asylum. Hearings on the bill began last week...
...Refugees are not the same as immigrants, 290,000 of whom can enter the country under the normal immigration laws. A refugee is officially defined by the proposed bill as anyone who flees his native country because of persecution or well-founded fear...
...supplies are tight is that overall output by the 13-nation OPEC cartel, which produces nearly half the world's oil, has been cut by between 7% and 10% since December, when shipments from Iran first stopped. Now that Iran is back to exporting, at two-thirds normal capacity, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Kuwait and other oil states are reducing their own deliveries to keep the market tight...
...nudibranch (a sea slug) and the medusa (a jellyfish) that live in the Bay of Naples. The slug lives with a tiny fragment of the medusa permanently and parasitically attached near its mouth. The vestigial jellyfish apparently is still able to reproduce; its offspring swim off and become normal adult jellyfish. The slug also produces larvae, but these are rather quickly trapped and subsumed by the new jellyfish. Aha, one would think, the jellyfish are getting back at the slugs for prior mutilations. No such thing. "Soon the snails," Thomas writes, "undigested and insatiable, begin to eat, browsing away first...
...whom had family histories of severe hemophilia. In four cases the tests showed that the fetus carried almost none of the clotting factor. Abortions were performed; tests later confirmed that the fetuses had severe hemophilia. In the other four cases, because the tests revealed that the fetus was normal, the pregnancies continued, and three of the women have already given birth to healthy boys...