Word: knowingly
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...dangerously crowded boats continued bringing Cuban refugees into Key West, Fla., the incoming tide rose to nearly 31,000-and the words of welcome from Washington hardly solved the near chaos created by the sudden influx. How many more Cubans would follow, nobody seemed to know-speculation ranged wildly upward to a quarter of a million, even to 1 million-and that raised the difficult question of whether there are practical limits to the number of refugees the U.S. can take...
...there were only about 50,000 Cubans living in the U.S. But the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates that at least 750,000 Cubans have settled here over the past 20 years. Because the number is determined by those aliens who register each January, an INS spokesman admits: "We know that it is low," It might even be as high as 1 million-with some 30,000 more new joining their ranks...
...together thought it could. They calculated thousands of human and mechanical contingencies and provided for them in their preparations. But always in these things providence demands a part, and no human can reckon with that hand. Washington, Jackson, Custer, Doolittle risked and won-and sometimes lost. God knows why, and we are not going to know finally this time...
There was confusion among Catholic leaders about the scope of the Pope's policy on priests and politics. Most of the doubt stemmed from the fact that the Pontiffs decision apparently was given orally to Pedro Arrupe, superior general of the Jesuit order; presumably only those two know exactly what John Paul II said. Jesuit headquarters in Rome communicated he decision to Drinan's superior, Edward M. O'Flaherty, Jesuit provincial in New England. O'Flaherty phoned the Congressman with this message: "Bob, I have some bad news for you. I received word rom the general...
Seemingly unprepared for the wave of criticism, White House officials insisted that Carter's absence was neither intended as a snub nor taken as such by Belgrade. Ambassador Eagleburger told reporters in Belgrade: "You are wrong if you presume that the embassy knows that there is great unhappiness with the [attendance of the] Vice President instead of the President." If the embassy did not know it, the White House apparently learned enough to consider adding a Belgrade stopover to Carter's scheduled trip to Italy next month...