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Since 1986 the group has performed locally, including an appearance at the Hasty Pudding. One of its most recent performances was at the T.S. Eliot Centennial at Sanders Theater last December in honor of the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth...
...recent years, however, the military's lock on that market has been challenged by groups as diverse as the Red Cross, Viet Nam veterans, CARE and the Quakers. These so-called peace recruiters now turn up regularly in school classrooms and at job fairs and career days across the country. Some seek to interest students in working for such organizations as the Peace Corps and VISTA, or help them find nonmilitary assistance for college. Others try to show those intent on military careers exactly what they are getting into. Many do all three. Says Lou Ann Merkle of the Central...
...range weapons. That is a touchy subject for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Modernization has become a hot-button issue in German politics, and Kohl would like to postpone modernizing the weapons until after national elections in December 1990. Already Kohl's Christian Democrats have suffered thrashings in six recent local elections, and his government might not survive an unpopular pledge to accept new nuclear weapons. Bush will try to nudge Kohl into a compromise before the NATO summit this spring...
...ethnic groups that have sunk deep roots in the U.S. Over the past seven years, some 100,000 Irish natives entered the U.S. on tourist visas, then stayed on after their allotted time expired. The Irish have complained that a 1965 immigration provision giving preference to family members of recent arrivals has helped Asians and Latinos while discriminating against West Europeans. Two years ago, Irish-American activists took their case to Congress and received an enthusiastic hearing. With the help of new legislation pushed by powerful advocates like Senator Edward M. Kennedy, some 3,900 Irish were granted additional visas...
...plight of the Central American refugees remains far more acute. Recent court decisions have held that applicants for asylum have to be given work- authorization documents, allowing them to seek immediate employment while the INS scrutinizes their pleas. But to stem a surge of arrivals from Central America, the INS delayed granting work permits until asylum applications could be processed and told the refugees to remain near their point of entry until the paperwork was completed. The new regulations helped turn the Rio Grande Valley into a giant alien way station...