Word: puerto
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...borrow a total of $2.37 billion from the Federal Government in order to pay basic benefits to their jobless workers. For all of 1981, nine states borrowed only $1.6 billion. These loans, coupled with unpaid balances incurred during earlier downturns, have pushed the total indebtedness for 16 states, plus Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, to $7.8 billion. That figure is expected to grow to $9.5 billion by year's end, and more states are likely to join the list of loan seekers before the recovery gets under way. Moreover, strict new federal rules governing...
...managed to enter undetected.) Under the Reagan policy, the Justice Department's Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began to detain undocumented aliens, who had been apprehended as they entered the U.S., at federal prisons and abandoned military bases in Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Texas, New York and Puerto Rico. Previously, immigration policy had been to release such illegal aliens on parole while the courts examined their appeals for political asylum or other legal status...
...Argentine soldiers returned home under tight security last week aboard the British ferryboat St. Edmund. The diesel-powered vessel discharged its human cargo, the last of some 11,000 prisoners taken by Britain in the Falkland Islands war, on a windswept dock in out-of-the-way Puerto Madryn, 650 miles south of Buenos Aires. One of the first down the gangplank was General Mario Benjamin Menendez, army commander in the Falklands, who saddened many of his countrymen when he surrendered to Britain's Major General John Jeremy Moore. Military authorities refused to allow the returning soldiers...
Forsaking All Others is another depiction of an underdog-eat-underdog world, bordered on the south by small-town Puerto Rico and on the north by the slums of the South Bronx. To the west, living in suburban New Jersey, are the absentee Mafia lords of the drug trade. To the east, in the modest neighborhoods of Queens and Long Island, are the homes of the cops. The Puerto Rican hoods hate their poverty and lack of power. The Italian gangsters despise the Puerto Ricans because they say "New Jessey" and are competitors in crime. The cops believe that everybody...
...Once, migrations caused statues to be erected and poems to be written . . . There is no monument, however, to the new immigrants, the blacks who came to the South Bronx from Jacksonville, Florida, and Americus, Georgia, and the Puerto Ricans from San Pedro and Santurce and Salinas and Ponce. There is not even official recognition that these new immigrants accomplished something that nobody else could do: turn the United States into two actual nations, one country of about one hundred ninety-five million whites and the other . . . of about sixty-five million...