Word: reached
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Though the United Nations maintains 16 camps for the 101,000 Indochinese refugees in Thailand at a cost of $11.5 million a year-$9.9 million of it provided by the U.S.-many would-be migrants are subject to cruel exploitation the instant they reach Thailand. All refugees arriving in the country, whether by sea or land, are considered "illegal entrants" and are fined up to $75. Those who cannot pay are often jailed, sometimes in open-air cages...
...Indochinese in addition to the 160,000 who have been admitted to the U.S. since 1975. Australia is committed to taking 6,000 refugees from Thailand, and France is scheduled to resettle 10,000. At that rate, U.N. officials note, refugee departures from Thailand to more hospitable shores could reach 40,000 in the next twelve months. But if the totalitarian regimes of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia persist in driving their citizens to seek freedom elsewhere, Thailand's refugee camps are bound to fill up again...
...radio preacher, Garner Ted Armstrong specializes in glib moralism and biblical analysis used to buttress his apocalyptic commentary on current events. On The World Tomorrow he claims to reach an audience of 30 million. Many of his listeners become contributors and converts to the show's never-mentioned sponsor, the Worldwide Church of God, which regards itself as the "True Church" re-established by the Deity in 1933 to prepare for the end of the world...
...Busby Berkeley, while others are shot realistically - and sloppily - in places like the high school lawn. Chorus members are not even given attitudes they can maintain when they are in the background of a shot. Camera work is film school simple, and movement within shots does not even reach the levels we are accustomed to in TV, whence Kleiser sprang or, more properly, stumbled. Even the lip-sync in the musical numbers is terrible...
...front of an open refrigerator for long, languid looks. Chicago schools have for years been teaching environmental science, with emphasis on energy conservation. Mike Palatnik, a teacher at Sullivan High School, made an intriguing discovery: "Kids want cars and material things, particularly boys. They are often hard to reach. Girls, on the other hand, seem to have more guilt about wasting energy...