Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Ordinarily, the Iranians would have been processed quickly, but they refused to give authorities their names. That, in turn, created another problem: the Immigration and Naturalization Service could not determine whether they were residing legally in the U.S. After being held five days in a District of Columbia jail, the Iranians were turned over to the INS, which sent them to more spacious facilities in New York...
...middle class. State Department experts believe that the country's potential prosperity could avert a total revolutionary upheaval, but only if political and social reforms are adopted. Says one frustrated U.S. official: "What they don't understand is that simply killing Communists doesn't solve the problem...
HONDURAS. The poorest country in the region, Honduras has so far experienced little of the political turmoil that has plagued its neighbors. Though military regimes have ruled for most of the past 17 years, the country's main problem is not repression but corruption. Honduras was rocked by scandal in 1975, when Strongman López Arellano resigned in the face of charges that he had taken a $1.2 million bribe from United Brands, successor to the United Fruit...
...Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders cited blacks' outrage over police brutality as a prime cause of rioting in ghetto neighborhoods. If any reminders were needed that the problem persists, the past few months' headlines have provided several. The rioting that rocked Miami in May erupted after four white Bade County officers were acquitted of various charges in the beating death of a black businessman. What one Justice Department official calls "the undeclared war between police and minorities" is a contributing factor in outbreaks of violence within the past year in such cities as Wichita, Kans., and Birmingham...
...more Americans have either been staying home or going on cheaper vacations. Though even a week at the seashore now seems expensive to many Americans, Europeans are eager to take advantage of what appear to them to be fire-sale prices. While persistent high inflation is a relatively recent problem for the U.S., a number of European nations have wrestled with it for years, and their own prices have climbed to alpine heights. The late 1970s slide of the dollar against such key currencies as the West German mark, the Swiss franc, and the British pound has only widened...