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...question is enveloped in emotional dispute, down to the basic numbers. Estimates of how many illegal aliens are already in the U.S. run as high as 15 million; the Census Bureau's guess is somewhere between 3.5 million and 6 million. But there is no question that the tide is rising...
...faculty rejected the Council's proposals, however, unleashing a wave of protest that rivaled the upheavals of a year ago. The proposals had emerged from dialogue with a faculty liaison committee appointed by Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 to stem the tide of unrest after boycotts, demonstrations, and sit-ins locked the campus last spring. For may, their defeat signaled the failure of student efforts to work within established channels, and previously passive students entered the fray...
...been written that there is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Until Eisenhower made his decision, and until the highly uncertain outcome of D-day was assured, it was still theoretically possible that Hitler might yet win the war, or at least achieve a stalemate that would leave him the master of most of Europe...
...hands of the Colombian mafia. Within hours of his death, Colombian police, army and security forces launched the most extensive crackdown on the narcotics trade in the country's history, one that promises to help the U.S. in its uphill struggle to stem the ever rising tide of Colombian cocaine and marijuana. The U.S. has backed the Colombian government's antinarcotics efforts with $7 million in aid since 1983, and the State Department has requested an additional $10.3 million for next year...
Maazel says he is not a candidate to replace Previn permanently, but will merely advise the Pittsburgh orchestra on programming and hiring conductors and soloists. "This is just to tide them over," says the conductor, who grew up in Pittsburgh and played violin in the orchestra for two seasons. He says he wants to concentrate on composing and guest conducting. "I have been in music administration for 20 years in Berlin, Cleveland and Vienna. This is the first time in two decades when I can just make music." In case he changes his mind, Maazel has commitments to lead several...