Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election night, Vorster spoke pointedly about taking no chances with "the safety of the state." He thus seemed to imply that the internal security measures now in effect will not be relaxed and that the people detained and "banned" in the government roundup of dissidents on Oct. 19 will not soon be released...
...estimated 40% of arson nationwide is economically motivated, as in the Boston cases that led to last week's roundup. Blazes are set by quasi-professional "torches" hired by landlords, real estate brokers, store owners, or welfare tenants who want to be relocated. The purpose, as New York Columnist Jimmy Breslin has put it, is to "build vacant lots for money." Charging up to $3,500 or a cut of the insurance money, the torch frequently mixes a brew of acid and sophisticated oxidizing agents to ignite a chemical fire that is all but impossible to trace...
...East Los Angeles, "we will be lulling people into a situation where we will face massive deportations." Hispanic leaders want general amnesty for all illegal aliens-or at least the right for those who obtain the five-year work permits to apply for citizenship. Carter aides, however, foresee no roundup at the end of the period, which would begin with passage of the bill. They predict further legislation that might allow those with work permits to remain indefinitely...
Last week the State Department diffidently issued its first, 143-page roundup, based on reports from U.S. embassies and prepared by staffers working with James Wilson, State's coordinator for human rights and humanitarian affairs...
...final Crimson argument concerns the psychological burdens placed upon Asian-American students at Harvard as evidence of their minority and disadvantaged predicament. However, the case can well be made that an incoming freshman from Ada, Oklahoma or Roundup, Montana faces much greater cultural shock and value conflicts than a Japanese-American from San Francisco or New York. Obstacles such as these should best be overcome by the concerted efforts of groups such as the organization for Asian-American students working in conjunction with the University to ease the assimilation of all incoming students into Harvard life...