official estimates, some 3.5 million aliens now live in die United States illegally, and 200,000 to 300,000 more are coming each year. Mexicans and Central Americans account for more than half of the influx, but illegal immigrants also come from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and Canada. Congress tried to stem the tide eight years ago strengthening border enforcement and imposing sanctions on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. But die Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 only...
George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Coles, in The Public Interest (Summer 1994), 1112 16thSt. N.W., Ste. 530, Washington, D.C. 20036; "Graffiti" Andre Henderson, in Gouernii~g (Aug. 1994), 2300 N St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.
Fighting "serious" crime by lengthening prison sentences, banning some semi-automatic weap- ons, and putting more cops on the beat, as Presi- dent Clinton's federal crime legislation pro- vides, is all well and good. But the more com- mon "crime"...
A. James Reichley, in Tlie
World &I (May 1994), 3400 New York Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
First critics of Ronald Reagan's presidency dis- missed him as an affable buffoon. Then, wlien the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were lib- erated, they denied tliat the Reagan administra- tion and its budget-busting arms buildup played a crucial role. Finally, a few academics conceded that the administration's policies contributed, but denied tliat Reagan himself did. Once again, Reagan's critics...
A. James Reichley, in Tlie
World &I (May 1994), 3400 New York Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
First critics of Ronald Reagan's presidency dis- missed him as an affable buffoon. Then, wlien the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were lib- erated, they denied tliat the Reagan administra- tion and its budget-busting arms buildup played a crucial role. Finally, a few academics conceded that the administration's policies contributed, but denied tliat Reagan himself did. Once again, Reagan's critics...
David C. Hendrickson,in Foreign Affairs (Sept.-Oct.1994),58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Candidate Bill Clinton's message in the 1992 campaign was plain: President George Bush was neglecting the domestic welfare. He was much too preoccupied with foreign affairs. So well did the Democrat get his message across, observes Hendrickson, a political scientist at Colorado College, that an important fact was obscured: Clinton was calling for a far more ambitious for- eign policy than Bush's. He not...
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., in Wake Forest Law Reviezu (Summer 1994), Wake Forest University, School of Law, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27109.
Opinion surveys show that Americans now have more confidence in the military than in any other
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institution. The hostility toward those in uniform so evident during the Vietnam War-and in ear- lier periods of American history-has disappeared, and the "can do" military is seen as virtually the only part of government that works. A 19...
the authoritarian system in which they live; indeed, they cherish the har- mony it provides. [They] do not necessarily ad- mire or desire the unbridled individualism en- joyed civilian society." As its civilian respon- sibilities multiply, Dunlap warns, the military may start "to assume it has the right, and even the obligation, to intervene in a wide range of activities when it perceives it can advance a broadly defined notion of the national interest."
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an educated elite, reverence for the law and tra- dition, political stability, and a humane free enter-prise system." Fulbright feared that LBJ's unwise venture in Vietnam was endangering America's own republican institutions. Imperialism and re- publicanism were not compatible.
'If Fulbright's philosophy was rooted in the Anglophilia and class-consciousness of Arkansas's planting aristocracy, it grew also out of the mind-set of the southern highlanders who populated the Ozark mountains,"...
"zealots" at home to ban the use of pesti- cides and biotechnology, which lift farm produc- tivity without posing significant dangers to the environment, Duesterberg says. "A far-greater . . . environmental catastrophe," he writes, "would ensue if the world's farmers cut down forests equal in size to the entire land mass of South America-which is what they would have to do to meet world food demand using only organic farming." Duesterberg's formula for the 21st century...
"zealots" at home to ban the use of pesti- cides and biotechnology, which lift farm produc- tivity without posing significant dangers to the environment, Duesterberg says. "A far-greater . . . environmental catastrophe," he writes, "would ensue if the world's farmers cut down forests equal in size to the entire land mass of South America-which is what they would have to do to meet world food demand using only organic farming." Duesterberg's formula for the 21st century...