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...most of the bill focuses on the enforcement of current labor law's rather than the implementation of employer sanctions. This gets to the root of the problem by eliminating the incentive for employers to hire undocumented workers, rather than threatening them with fines after they have hired them...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: False Amnesty | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...watchdogs of the government--including a request to exempt the CIA from FOIA provisions entirely. He has signed an executive order allowing the CIA and FBI to monitor and infiltrate academic and press institutions. The Pentagon has ordered employees to take lie-detector tests, in an effort to root out news leaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gagging the Latest Gag Rule | 4/20/1984 | See Source »

Followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the TM movement's founder, told the council that if a group comprising the square root of 1 percent of a city's population mediate together, the rate of crime, accidents and sickness will decrease, and "an ideal quality of city, state and national life" will be created...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Council Told TM Will Solve World Trouble | 4/10/1984 | See Source »

...grain embargo and auto imports, by reassuring our allies on our plans with respect to the neutron bomb and by the nature of my personality. The fanciful story about my thrusting a "20-page memorandum" into Reagan's hands as he returned from his swearing-in took root in the press and demonstrated once again that gossip is hardier than truth. Again I called up Meese. "Al," he said, "it's just newspaper talk. Don't pay any attention." Baker gave me the same advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Soon Reagan called. In fact, he was able to explain the misunderstanding. He regarded the new arrangement as a mere housekeeping detail, a formality. Lack of communication, aggravated by staff mischief, was the root problem. I was convinced that Ed Meese had been as misled as the President. The trouble lay elsewhere in the President's staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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