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...study in the U.S. has for generations been the dream of the young in many lands; currently, 145,000 foreign students are resident in the U.S., most of them of college age. For those living in Detroit, the dream has lately become a nightmare. In an unprecedented official crackdown, agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service have been rounding up foreign students who are working illegally. The INS work rules, mostly ignored earlier, are being enforced because so many native Detroiters are out of jobs themselves...
...fact, thanks to the enterprise of the reivers, as such hereditary brigands were known, between the battle of Flodden in 1513 and the English crackdown on Scotland after the Union of the Crowns in 1603, the border was probably the most troubled region on the face of the much troubled earth...
...legal crackdown on fake term papers [March 27] is like fighting measles by using steel wool to scrub off the belmishes. The basic contradiction this business thrives upon is that students are required to write term papers of no use or interest to them. "Publish or pelish" on the professoriaal level becomes "compose or fail" on the student level. This term paper requirement, so irrelevant to real needs of most students, is just one more example of how the educational system is geared to academic, bureaucratic and corporate instuitions and not be the needs of the students...
...most immediate response to the atrocity was a harsh crackdown on leftist radicals. Last week the government arrested more than 100 university students in Ankara and threatened to close down the schools if sympathy demonstrations for the terrorists continued...
...display of sympathy for the gunned-down terrorists, Marxist groups set off bombs in Istanbul, and university students in Ankara boycotted classes. The Turkish army proceeded to round up 40 suspected guerrilla ringleaders. So far, in a crackdown on left-wing terrorism, nearly 1,500 people have been arrested or placed on trial. Last week's shootout seemed likely to make that crackdown even tougher...