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...country, these children and family members are of particular humanitarian concern to the United States," Shultz told a Senate judiciary subcommittee on refugees. He also asked that American doors be opened for an esti mated 10,000 to 15,000 political prisoners who aided the U.S. ef ort in South Viet Nam. The Secretary's recommendation called for a ceiling of 50,000 refugees a year from all of East Asia. In the past two years, 3,300 Vietnamese immigrated to America; currently, there are some 450,000 Vietnamese living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigrants: Forgotten Children, Old Allies | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...however, disagree that some mysterious factor-something from Space has been periodically snuffing ort life on earth during the past 100 million years. Theorists believe that whatever this force it, it has blown animals and other substances on the planet high into the stratosphere, about once every 26 million years...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Tracking the Death Star | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

...other Radcliffe marshals, in order of votes won, are Frances E. Turner of Mather House, Ingrid L. Ort of Lowell House, and Elizabeth Einaudi of Leverett House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jacobson, Johnson Elected First Marshals of College | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...draw up individual education plans for disabled pupils. A costly procedure, it is subject to parents' approval. Unhappy parents can even take their grievances to court. But Paul Ackerman, director of the White House conference's education program, welcomes the parental clause. Says he: "We will focus ort the role of parents in exercising their rights, making parents realize that they are part of the school-parent team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: D-Day for the Disabled | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...spread, Chile's middle and upper classes are becoming increasingly self-conscious about overt displays of wealth. Los Leones, one of Santiago's most elegant country clubs, has opened its manicured golf course and pine-shaded swimming pool to working-class children at least once a week ort "días populares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Allende's Hundred Days | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

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