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...allegation surfaced last week in Paris, where members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a Muslim socialist party opposed to the Khomeini regime, released photos purporting to be of one such incident. The massacre, said to have occurred last January in Bostan, a town in the southwestern province of Khuzistan, was photographed by Iranian officers sympathetic to the Mujahedin. According to the officers, Islamic Guards assembled a group of Iraqi prisoners in front of pictures of Khomeini and ordered them to chant slogans praising the Ayatullah. Several dozen Iraqis refused. They were led away, and their hands were tied behind their...
Based on the premise that undocumented migrant workers "take jobs from Americans," the employers' sanctions in S. 2222 are unlikely to work. Employers in southwestern states use Mexican farm labor systematically. Many of their businesses depend on the seasonal influx from south of the border. It's hard to see how a $2000 fine per illegal worker--levied only after two warnings and a lengthy adjudication process--would influence many growers to end this lucrative practice. In any case, by liberalizing the rules governing the so-called "H-2" seasonal workers program, S. 2222 actually increases some employers' incentive...
Government forces responded with barrages of tear gas, crippling blasts from mobile water cannons and, in the southwestern town of Lubin, a lash of bullets that left at least two workers dead and twelve wounded. Another demonstrator died of bullet wounds in the nearby city of Wroclaw, while a 22-year-old man was found dead following disturbances in Gdansk. They were Poland's first fatalities in political demonstrations since Dec. 16, when nine striking miners were shot by security forces at the Wujek colliery after the imposition of martial law. In the wake of the rioting, the government...
Rostenkowski's most spectacular move was a deal he cut with Don Bailey, a Democrat from the steelworking region of southwestern Pennsylvania. The way the tax bill was written, some depressed industries that installed new equipment before the end of 1982 could sell their deductions under the safe harbor leasing provisions. For the steel industry, however, the deadline had to be extended for there to be any benefits. Bailey told Rostenkowski: "These things have to be changed." But Bailey did not make his request until 10:30 Tuesday night, 90 minutes before the conference committee report on the bill...
...more apt to have his paperback contracts reviewed than his books." He tells of an adventure he had in 1960, when he was twelve; he and three friends set out to discover the body of a boy who has been reported missing from a neighboring town in southwestern Maine. He gives his story a sound track at appropriate moments: "Scary violin music started to play in my head." He is crossing a railroad bridge over a river when a train materializes: "The freight's electric horn suddenly spanked the air into a hundred pieces with one long loud blast...