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...immigration agents come from fellow Hispanics. "The average Hispanic understands," Lamm says, "that there are only so many jobs." In a recent poll of 457 registered Hispanic voters in southern Texas, 54% said they favored stricter enforcement of the immigration laws. "They're destroying this country," complains Juan Ramírez, laid-off master electrician from the Brownsville area. "Are you going to hire me when you can get someone else for $3.50 an hour...
...same tactics the military junta in Buenos Aires used in its "dirty war" against leftist terrorists in the 1970s. According to human rights activists, 34 people have been murdered and an additional five have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. In April, paramilitary squads gunned down three trade-union leaders. Says Ramón Custodio López, a doctor who helped found the Honduran Commission for the Defense of Human Rights: "The repression is systematic. It is directed against anyone suspected of being a sympathizer or supporter of the revolution in El Salvador or in Nicaragua...
...Harvard Budget Office Director Ann S. Ram say announced that she was leaving her post to work for a multinational computer company as a government liaison. With her departure, the financial office will complete its reorganization and break into four divisions: internal audits, sponsored research, financial systems, and budgets...
...sigma delta returned to the old campus last week for the first time since being ousted 20 years ago for involving students in their experiments with mind-altering drugs. Timothy Leary, 62, the pop promoter of LSD in the '60s, and Richard Alpert, 49, now known as Baba Ram Dass, showed up in a rented hall thick with students, many of whom were on mother's milk when the pair achieved their notoriety. Harvard, said Leary, is still "the main line of American transcendental thinking...
...They got some big hits," Bauer said. "They got all of the breaks." The three Ram extra-base hits drove in all seven of the URI runs...