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...burden off the Border Patrol and shift it to employers who have been turning a blind eye to their undocumented workers. But the bill is no panacea. The trek of immigrants will continue as long as some countries are rich and stable, and others are poor and torn by political dissension. Given the parlous state of so many other economies, the U.S. stands to be the land of opportunity for some time to come...
...still unclear is whether Shultz or the White House staff is now in charge of Central American policy. And whoever is in charge, what does that mean? According to Shultz, the U.S. remains committed to a "sophisticated but I think very correct" set of policies in connection with war-torn El Salvador. That policy, Shultz reiterated last week, contains four elements: 1) increased aid in developing the economy and democratic institutions; 2) military assistance aimed at strengthening the Salvadoran army so that it can keep the guerrillas at bay long enough for the first goal to produce results; 3) support...
...unifying element is a love story played out against a landscape of doom. Val (Jennie Stoller) falls in love with Frank (Bernard Strother), a farm laborer separated from his wife and children. She leaves her husband and two young daughters. But Val is soon torn by anguish. She cannot live without her children and would die without her man. The lovers are both earthbound and star-crossed...
...Ford as Han Solo don't make very convincing lovers, but Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker successfully reveals something resembling inner struggle between the Force and the evil his father represents. Since Star Wars. Hamill has changed Skywalker from the typical fairy-tale incarnation of goodness into a character torn by his affections for his father and his desires to save his friends, who represent the last people untouched by evil and corruption...
...Richard Brinsley Sheridan's sour 1777 comedy about the fragility of reputation provides an apt farewell for a man who complains of subjecting his most intimate labors to the casual scrutiny of others. Says Miller: "It is about the extent to which we exist only by being invented, torn down and reinvented by other people...