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...Judiciary Committee, would slash the annual employment-visa quota from 140,000 workers to 90,000 within a year of its passage. Some companies that hire immigrants would have to pay a fee of $10,000-or 10% of each worker's salary, whichever is higher--for worker training. Simpson also wants to require some new arrivals to be proficient in business English, and would limit the stay of foreigners transferred to the U.S. from a company's overseas branches to three years--vs. a five-to-seven-year limit today. To increase the odds that the bill is considered...
...target for those gigabytes of scorn is the last hurrah of Republican Senator Alan Simpson, 64, the deacon of U.S. immigration law, who is retiring this December after 18 years in Congress. Simpson, who sponsored a major reform of U.S. immigration rules in 1986, has some further fine-tuning in mind. What has businessmen so riled up is provisions in Simpson's 200 plus-page immigration package that would sharply curtail the number of foreign skilled and professional workers who can enter the U.S. on employment visas each year. Those in the technology business charge that at best the cutback...
...Simpson sees his legislation as a way to keep business from driving down American wages and giving away jobs to foreigners willing to accept low wages. "Employers should be able to obtain skilled foreign workers," the Senator says, "but not with an abandon that leaves 1.1 million skilled young Americans chiseled out of jobs." He dismisses criticism of the bill as "a very deft operation of near hysteria" and asserts, "We're not trying to do one damn thing to [hurt] American competitiveness...
...Simpson is scheduled to be deposed by lawyers for the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, who are seeking civil damages from him. The deposition begins Monday and may take several days. Simpson, says a source, is worried that leaks from the deposition may undercut interest in his new video, for which he received $1 million upfront. Angry that "these white folks ain't gonna let me do anything" to make the kind of money he used to, he is reaching out for black support. Later in the week O.J. is supposed to submit to a cable...
...ANGELES: After backing out of two previously scheduled interviews, O.J. Simpson has agreed to tell his side of the story to Black Entertainment Television tonight. "This interview is probably not a good idea for O.J.," says TIME's Patrick Cole from Los Angeles. "Money is probably driving this decision to some extent, but it is also Simpson's need to be liked. He's used to that, and is probably doing this to satisfy his ego more than anything else. The danger for him is that the tape will be watched very carefully. Psychologists for the plaintiffs in his civil...