Word: aides
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Worst Screening Policy Texas' McAllen Medical Center, which sits in a crossing zone heavily trafficked by aliens, outfitted security guards in olive-colored togs that bear a strong resemblance to the uniforms of U.S. Border Patrol agents. Legal-aid lawyers charge that the dress code scared off poor Hispanics in need of health care...
...what remains of perestroika, the right seems convinced that it can do very well without Gorbachev. Many of its members regard him with open contempt as a leader who has reduced the Soviet Union, once a proud superpower, to literal beggary, making it dependent on food and other economic aid from the West...
Partly at Shevardnadze's urging, the West has placed all its hopes for a new world order on Gorbachev. French and German authorities last week even urged that aid be accelerated, arguing that at this critical time for the survival of perestroika Gorbachev needs all the help he can get. But what if the next figure to follow Shevardnadze to a podium and announce that a triumphant right has left him no choice but to resign were Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev...
...scholarship policy at his confirmation hearings next month. But if anyone can bring some sense of political harmony to the issue, it may well be the pragmatic Alexander, a musically versatile classical pianist who also likes to sit in with Tennessee washboard bands. Commenting last week on the financial-aid flap, he deftly declared, "I find it's often best to approach questions of this kind with a warm heart and common sense...
...government says the money was siphoned from the hefty military aid that Washington gives Israel ($1.8 billion this year), and officials fear the scandal will further strain relations with the U.S. Others have called for air force chief Major General Avihu Bin-Nun's resignation. For now, that seems unlikely, especially given the gulf crisis. In an apologetic letter to his staff last week, Bin-Nun wrote, "I trusted Rami Dotan in exactly the same way that I would trust the aircraft technician from whom I receive a plane before a flight...