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This year 46 defectors reached South Korea, up from eight last year, and hundreds more are still in parts of China and Russia close to North Korea, taking shelter with large Korean communities there. China and Russia turn a blind eye toward the runaways, and South Korean diplomats in Beijing and Vladivostok sometimes help them, but many rely on a rudimentary underground run by Korean ethnics. There is as yet no wholesale stampede from the North similar to what happened in the last days of East Germany, but any openings like the agreement two weeks ago between Washington and Pyongyang...
Until then we must endure. We must shelter the huddled masses yearning to drink. We must take these urinating, defecating, vomiting vagrants under our wings...
...Most urgent among the stalled bills: the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, which would create thousands of new U.S. jobs and enjoys majority support. But it is held hostage by a single Democrat: Senate Commerce Committee chairman Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, who is battling to shelter his state's powerful textile interests from the global competition that other U.S. industries and workers are facing -- and winning. Senate leaders vowed to press for a vote this week or during a special session in late November. But optimism was hard to sustain in the twilight of a session...
...revitalized Latinas Unidas, a Latino women's group, is training its members to volunteer at a battered women's shelter in Boston. Study breaks and discussions are also on the agenda, said co-chair Elvira M. Villasuerte...
...volunteer program organized by the HBS Volunteers, students painted storefronts in Roxbury, worked at a harbor-area homeless shelter and helped restructure a home for troubled adolescents in Jamaica Plain...