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...honor. "He could have said that he didn't want to give the Federal Government an excuse to bust the union and that he was ordering us back under protest. I think he blew it." Sandi Engel, a controller at Illinois' busy Aurora center, is married to a union welder who opposes the strike. Says she: "Every morning he tells me, 'What you're doing is illegal. You're going to jail...
ALASKA's not just a pipe-welder's dream. Writers, too, have trekked North, seeking new horizons and best-selling gold in an unexplored territory. Those who care to learn what life in Alaska is really like will have to end their leather-upholstered musings about the wilds with Joe McGinnis' Going to Extremes...
...expected to grow. Even some of the most ambitious Cubans have found the adjustment to the U.S. extremely difficult. One example is Amado Benitez, 29, who found a home in Chicago with his half sister just two days after his arrival in Florida five months ago. A professional welder, Benitez went looking for a job, but he could not find one because of his lack of English and the city's high unemployment. To make matters worse, his immigration papers authorize employment only until Jan. 15. Meanwhile, like most other Cuban refugees, he is ineligible for welfare. Trapped...
...determination. He ran with a kind of hop and a skip with his prosthetic leg, on good days covering up to 30 miles. He ran through rain, snow and hailstones during the early weeks, then endured the sizzling afternoon sun of June and July. At one point, a welder did spot repairs on the artificial limb...
Jobs. By one estimate, five of every six new refugees have failed to find employment. Says Lucas Perez, 32, a welder who came to the U.S. a month ago: "I've gone through two pairs of shoes looking for work. There is none." Adds Hilda Lisa, 29, watching over two children in the tent city, while her husband looks for work as an electrician: "We had been dreaming of getting out of Cuba for years. And now we are here-no jobs, no housing, nothing...