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Thus ended last week one of the worst tragedies in the long and tortured history of illegal crossings of the U.S.-Mexican border. The lone survivor, Miguel Tostado Rodriguez, 21, told how he promised to pay $400 to a "coyote" (the term for smugglers who grow wealthy by sneaking Mexicans into the U.S.) for help in rafting the Rio Grande and hiding in a freight train headed for Fort Worth. All but two of his 18 companions had agreed to make similar payments. Those two were guides, working with the coyote...
...book sales in France that Pivot reigns as the most influential literary figure in the country. "Ask a publisher or bookstore owner what it would be like without Pivot," declared the French newsmagazine Le Point, "and then look at the expression on his face. It's one of a lone sailor at sea who's just lost the mast of his ship...
Whatever change is taking place, it seemed to be accelerating last week. Ford, which has manufactured cars in South Africa for 63 years, hopes to donate most of its holdings to its predominantly black work force. ITT sold off its small automobile-brake plant. Citicorp, the lone American bank left in South Africa, will sell its 29-year-old subsidiary to First National, the country's largest commercial bank...
...importance of the occasion, in which one of the nation's most renowned faculties placed its stamp of approval on a new area of intellectual inquiry. When the dean of the faculty called on faculty members to shout their "ayes" and "nays," the room echoed resoundingly with "ayes." One lone and thoroughly discredited voice uttered a "nay." Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., a professor of government, spoke alone for an intimidated minority that still had doubts about the new undergraduate concentration, dubbed Women's Studies...
...lone reference to the cabinet officialyesterday, Bok said, "The Reagan era is certainlymarked...a certain amount of official criticism ofhigher education voiced by my former student [atthe Law School], the Secretary of Education, whomsome people accuse me of not teaching wellenough...