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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration seemed squarely at odds with itself last week over the prickly issue of refugees from Central America. In Florida, Perry Rivkind, the district director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that he would not deport citizens from Nicaragua who seek political asylum in the U.S. In Arizona, the Justice Department wound up its prosecution of eleven church workers accused of smuggling aliens from El Salvador and Guatemala into the U.S. -- even though these illegal immigrants also claimed that they feared persecution in their home countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double Standard for Refugees? | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...kangaroo court. I don't see it as some invidious attempt on the part of the administration to quell the divestiture movement," Raphael continues. According to Raphael and others familiar with the CRR, the body already incorporates many of the safeguards and checks its detractors seek...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The CRR: Whose Rights, Whose Responsibilities? | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Last week the Reagan Administration submitted to Congress the toughest measures ever undertaken to protect U.S. property rights. The proposals will make it easier for domestic companies to seek judgments against foreign firms engaged in counterfeiting. The U.S. also plans to retaliate against countries that condone such practices by denying them trade preferences. Said Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "The law will not tolerate the theft of ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: Going After the Fakes | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...century. Locked in the Tower of London is Colonel Fairfax (Garland Withers), condemned to death as a result of a jealous relative's evil machinations. Everyone loves Fairfax, particularly Sergeant Meryll (Douglas Freeman) of the Tower yeomen and Meryll's daughter Phoebe (Lisa Zeidenberg). Maneuvering on their own, they seek to free the condemned man--Meryll in appreciation of Fairfax's past heroism, Phoebe in anticipation of the captive's predicted amours...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: A Little Nice Music | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

There are many places Harvard students with eating disorders can seek help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where to Turn for Help | 4/16/1986 | See Source »

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