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Duarte's task is complicated by the fact that so much is unknown or unprovable about the squads. Even the death toll is a matter of debate. Tutela Legal, the human rights office of the archdiocese of San Salvador, claims that during the last six months of 1983, 2,615 civilians were killed "by the army, security forces, and paramilitary squads allied with them," up from 2,527 during the first half of 1983. This year, the organization contends, the tide is still rising: 241 dead in January, 269 in February, 407 in March. Though State Department officials...
Like the Simpson-Mazzoli package, the Roybal alternative has an amnesty section, but with some key differences. This bill grants permanent resident status to those illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. since January 1, 1982. It reduces the administrative toll because it has one uniform policy instead of Simpson's two-tiered proposal. Furthermore, it eliminates the "residing continuously" qualification, allowing for up to 45 day absences annually and a waiver for absences due to "undue hardship of the alien, his spouse, parent, or child...
...have been less fortunate, with injuries having taken their toll on the team, primarily in the hurdling department. Co-Captain Kimbro Stephens and junior Steven Eaeji-Okoye, two of the best intermediate hurdlers in the league, both sat out on Saturday...
...city of Amritsar, killing four and injuring 31. In many Punjab towns terrorists on motorcycles shot up cars, banks and people in the streets. Two Hindu political leaders, both national figures, were gunned down. At week's end 23 had been killed and 80 injured, bringing the death toll in the past three months to almost...
Perhaps the most emotional issue involving Arnett is his unyielding stand on the fatal ingestion by waterfowl of spent lead shotgun pellets that hunters scatter in marshlands. Hair, a wildlife biologist, and other environmentalists say that the lead-shot toll may be as high as 4 million ducks annually. They contend that the deaths could be avoided by switching to steel pellets. Arnett's answer: "It's not that easy." Accepting the argument of many hunters that the lighter steel pellets have less stopping power and that consequently more ducks would be injured, he has cut back...