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...after a team of technicians disassembled a production-line missile last month. The Navy has already received 2,500 Phoenixes and has 373 more on order this year. A Navy technical team in Tucson is dissecting two more Hughes missiles to determine how serious the slip-ups have been. In the meantime the Navy is soliciting signs of interest from other suppliers. Said a Navy official: "I have a feeling this will shake things up quite a bit and Hughes will rapidly get its act into shape...
Every evening in Tijuana, scores of young men gather in an abandoned soccer field, hoping for a chance to cross the border into California. A lone U.S. Border Patrol officer blocks their passage during the day, and so the Mexicans wait for nightfall, when they can slip silently through the shadows. But over the past week they have been looking beyond the Border Patrol at a more threatening obstacle to their hope of finding jobs in the U.S.: the passage by Congress of the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill...
DIED. Estelle Winwood, 101, fey, indefatigable slip of a British character actress who in an eight-decade career appeared on Broadway in some 40 plays, especially those of G.B. Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward, and a score of movies, including The Glass Slipper (1955) and Murder by Death (1976); in Los Angeles...
...Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. during World War II, three generations of TIME correspondents have dogged the footsteps of this taciturn, publicity-shy diplomat. In Washington, at the United Nations and during almost every East-West crisis, reporters have waited, usually in vain, for the impenetrable Gromyko mask to slip...
...agents working the 3 p.m.-to-11 p.m. shift rounded up 155 aliens and took them to a detention center. INS guards then put the pollos aboard buses, drove them to a border crossing and herded them through a wire gate back into Mexico. Nearly all would try to slip across the border again, many only hours later the same night. They would keep coming until they eventually escaped to pursue the irresistible lure of jobs that are unavailable in Mexico. Says Alan Eliason, chief of border patrols in that section of California: "We are overwhelmed. Congress has to come...