Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next stop is one of three military bases in the U.S., where they wait for sponsorship in America. At one of those bases, Southern California's sprawling Camp Pendleton, Marines have thrown up a vast tent city amid the tough green scrub and yellow-mustard weeds. The Marines, who displayed superb organization in setting up the camp, rounded up three blankets for every refugee and issued each a hooded field jacket. The refugees organized a committee responsible for small personal needs, medical services and English-language courses. There was something hauntingly familiar about a Marine captain's remark...
...plans to hire 213 more border patrolmen next year, hardly enough to make an appreciable difference. Says Chapman: "There is only one practical way to stop, or even slow, the vast numbers who seek to come to this country by any means available-that is to eliminate the attraction that brings them here. That attraction is jobs." In 1972 New Jersey Congressman Peter Rodino introduced a bill that would make it a crime for employers to knowingly hire illegal aliens. Under the bill an employer, beginning with his third offense, could spend a year in jail for each illegal alien...
...Third World, socalled, is a place of vast variety. Originally, and rather vaguely, it meant the countries that were not Communist or clearly antiCommunist, which were neutralist in foreign policy, with a general implication that they were also underdeveloped economically and usually not of the white race. A later euphemism was the L.D.C.s-the less developed countries. (A grammatical purist might object that all of the countries in the world except Abu Dhabi, which has the highest real income per capita, are by definition L.D.C.s.) Now, as the number of countries on earth has kept increasing and as the disparities...
This season City Ballet confronts its stiffest artistic challenge ever. During the last three weekends of May, Hommage a Ravel, a centenary celebration of the French composer's birth, will feature a festival of 16 new ballets against a vast fresco of Ravel music. "In ballet there has to be something new every season," Balanchine explains calmly. "Also, Ravel was a Basque and all the Basques dance." Because the company cannot afford to close down even for a week, the new dances must be created and rehearsed while the company continues to perform the 36 ballets now in repertory...
...population and industrial centers, natural resources, proximity to sea lanes, and American treaty commitments. By those more searching standards, several countries stand out as having great importance to the U.S.: Japan, preeminently; South Korea, whose independence is vital to Japanese security; the Philippines and Indonesia, which have vast resources; and Singapore and Malaysia, which together with Indonesia control the Strait of Malacca, the vital corridor for oil tankers traveling to Asia from the Middle East. Despite U.S. treaty commitments, Thailand and Taiwan are now viewed as being of less importance. No one writes them off, but then-political future...