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...program. This provision, already passed by the Senate, grants permanent resident status to illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. since 1977 or earlier. It grants those who have been here since 1980 temporary resident status. Some liberal-minded supporters of the bill speak glowingly of the amnesty plank, saying that it will end the negative social and economic sub-culture in which illegals are forced to exist. But in reality, it would have little effect Legalized immigrants would be ineligible for federal programs such as food stamps. Medicaid, and Aid to Dependent Children, allowing the spiral of poverty...
...interview with TIME aboard his charter plane flying from Pittsburgh to Madison, Wis., during which he came close to falling asleep from exhaustion, Jackson insisted that he had just two "litmus-test" demands for Mondale or Hart to meet hi return for his support. They are a "peace" plank and a solid commitment to end the runoff-primary system that, in his view, blocks the election of many more black candidates to federal and state office. Neither demand, however, would be easy for the eventual Democratic nominee to meet. "Peace" in Jackson's terms includes his demand...
...speech at the Convention, based on the foreign policy plank of the party platform, called for a policy much like the one I was later to advocate within the Reagan Administration. Afterward, Justin Dart [a Los Angeles businessman], a member of the kitchen cabinet and an old friend, shook my hand and said, "You're our next Secretary of State." I was not surprised to hear this?the air in a convention quivers with hyperbole?but I did not take it as gospel. I went back to Hartford and my work...
...three were photographed for three hours on a Formica-covered plank in Munro's New York City studio. The session, which cost $75 per hour per baby, was unstructured. "The babies did whatever they felt like," says Munro. "If they fell over, we didn't sit them up. If they dribbled, we didn't clean them up. The hardest part was getting their mothers to leave them alone...
...about 12 o'clock on May 1st a Dudley House resident and I walked into Dudley House carrying a large banner connected to a long plank of wood. As we entered, the security guard could not have missed...