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Among the arguments made by advocates of tougher immigration laws is the contention that the extension of public services to illegal aliens is a drain on American taxpayers. They note that some workers without documents manage to receive government welfare and health-care benefits, and many send their children to public schools. The counterargument is that more than 70% of illegal aliens have Social Security as well as federal and state income taxes withheld from their pay by employers who want to maintain the pretense that they are using legal labor. Since these workers often do not file tax returns...
...first day Bella Davidovich sat down to practice the piano in her new apartment in Queens, N.Y., a neighbor slipped a note under the door asking her not to play so loudly. Winner of the International Chopin Competition, faculty member at the Moscow Conservatory, Deserving Artist of the Soviet Union, Davidovich was unknown to her new neighbors. Her nonpolitical departure from the U.S.S.R. had occurred without benefit of an international incident and the subsequent career-boosting headlines. Adding injury to insult, Davidovich had been mugged just after her arrival in New York City; unfamiliar with such American customs...
...alleged that Price Waterhouse, the fifth-largest U.S. public accounting firm, had failed to note discrepancies in AM financial statements and thus was "materially false and misleading." As a result, the SEC said, AM was able to report inflated revenues and profits. Price Waterhouse denied any wrongdoing in the audit and contended that the SEC was trying to blame it for the mistakes of AM management...
There is an Ivan-One-Note quality to Soviet propaganda against the U.S. these days. Whatever the issue at hand -- trade, ideology, Third World instability -- Soviet spokesmen routinely find some way of working in a denunciation of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Part of the Soviet complaint is that SDI, commonly called Star Wars, has the potential of drastically changing the rules whereby the superpowers deter each other from starting a nuclear...
Perhaps so, but many problems still remained. West German investigators were careful to note that the identification of the body and the matching of documents were not necessarily related to each other -- or to the elusive doctor. The body might be Mengele's, but that would not prove that he had died six years ago or in Brazil. The letters might be his, but that did not prove that Pedro was Mengele, or that the Auschwitz doctor had ever lived among the Bosserts and the Stammers...