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...these widespread measures will be a gargantuan undertaking for the INS, already overtaxed by the job of rounding up and deporting more than a million aliens a year. To handle amnesty petitions, the agency plans to open some 100 legalization centers, creating an entire new bureaucracy. "Even Sears and McDonald's would find opening 100 operations around the country a tall order," says the INS's Everson. The service has hired 2,200 new people, purchased $18 million worth of new furniture and 600 desktop computers. Is the agency worried about the deluge? "Hell, yes, I'm worried," says William...
...COULD PUT all of this into a book one day. A book of stories as true as what you've just read. I could regale you for pages with tales of my brushes with the high and mighty: Bill Madlock, Cloris Leachman, Howard Cosell, Placido Domingo, Ronald McDonald. The list goes on and on. But I just don't know if I could sleep at night upon the wreckage of the broken careers, the shattered lives that would result from such a work...
Administration: Suzanne Davis, Emily Friedrich, Demetra Kosters, Susan Lynd News Desks: Frances Fiorino, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Susanna Mary Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley, Arturo Yaez...
...Fleet Street rag. The paper charged that for more than four years the passport officer at the Irish embassy in London had sold false Irish passports to foreigners. The price: as much as $24,000 apiece. The story further alleged, although it provided no evidence, that the official, Kevin McDonald, 37, may have sold some of the bogus documents to "Libyans, Iranians, Lebanese and others" from states associated with terrorism. Irish authorities reportedly relieved McDonald of his embassy duties and then ordered him back to Dublin...
...recent telephone interview, however, Council Treasurer David McDonald said there had been a "misunderstanding" in the earlier reports. He said that the council's arrangement with the Student Production Association was not a loan at all, but rather made the council the first sponsor of the event. As it turned out, no corporate sponsors were attracted. The council will recoup the students' funds, McDonald said, only if the concert is a success...