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...strengthen the Immigration and Naturalization Service's border patrol, the bill "expresses the sense of the Senate" that more funds be allocated to the patrol. But it neither authorizes nor appropriates such funds. Beyond that, the bill also calls for a "user's fee" for aliens seeking access to the U.S. border. One wonders how many migrants determined to flee Mexico's desperate poverty would actually be deterred by such an admission charge, or how many would even be aware of its existence...
...Hart pointed out during the Senate debate, immigration is both a domestic and a foreign policy issue. Washington should undertake cooperative efforts with other governments to curb excessive immigration. For example, even S. 2222 could have included a joint U.S.-Mexican education program to alert Mexicans to the proposed user fees. Beyond this, the U.S. government should support a greater role for developing countries in IMF decisions so that they may join in developing alternatives to the harsh "adjustment" program. The U.S. should also support political changes that are likely to end human rights abuses--like those in El Salvador...
...angles to a gun rack, responds to the caller, voice to voice, and makes the requested connection by hand. If nobody picks up the phone, she will report "d.a." (doesn't answer). None of the nervously informing burps and buzzes of a dial system are available to the user of the crank phone. It is an eminently human...
Dave Roberts, a known criminal and narcotics user, was to testify last October in a trial arising from the theft of $100,000 worth of integrated electronic circuits in Santa Clara, Calif. The defendant was ultimately convicted, but without Roberts' help. One month before the trial, he was murdered execution-style and dumped in a shallow grave in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains...
...football is no greater than in society." Only lately has Commissioner Pete Rozelle acknowledged it "could be a larger problem for us." Since the Reese report, other woozy-headed players have stumbled forward, and several teams have volunteered the information that they have been arranging treatment for their user athletes for some time. Sports editors in the 28 league cities sent their reporters out after the local angle, and the story dripped, dripped, dripped. This summer, drugs got more ink than draft choices...