Scholastic Update articles from November 1996

Scholastic Update archives from November 1996

America's closest enemy. (Cuba; includes related articles)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1996... HAVANA, CUBA -- Across the street from the old United States embassy building in downtown Havana, the Cuban government has erected an enormous billboard. It shows a gun-toting Cuban screaming across the sea to the United States, only 90 miles...

Should I stay or should I go? (two Cuban youths talk about their lives)(Cover Story)(Interview)
November 1, 1996... Cuba's economic crisis has hit young people especially hard. Many who grew up expecting to attend college and find good jobs have found their dreams shattered. With few prospects in Cuba, many young people are struggling to survive. And they...

Island in a storm. (chronology of US-Cuba relations)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1996... Close neighbors and mortal enemies, the U. S. and Cuba have shared a hundred-year history of conflict. Only 90 miles separate the United States, the world's biggest democracy, from tiny (Cuba, One of the last Communist strongholds. That...

Putting the squeeze on Cuba. (US policy; includes related articles)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1996... For 37 years, Fidel Castro has vowed to turn Cuba into a model Communist state. Since seizing control of the country in 1959, he has promised Cubans free health care and education, and said that all would have enough to eat. But life for...

Government for sale? Money may buy influence in Washington, but can the system afford to change?
November 1, 1996... Over the years, the family of Ernest and Julio Gallo, owners of America's largest winery, have given more than a million dollars to Bob Dole. In return, according to a 1996 report by the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.,...

From war to peace. (Central America)
November 1, 1996... Ten years ago, Central America was engulfed by war. Today, the region is trying to sustain a fragile peace and rebuild its economies. Just 10 years ago, news of war and strife in Central America was on the front page of every newspaper in...

Walking the white road. (attempts to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream society)
November 1, 1996... In the 19th century, the great clash between Indians and white settlers shaped American history. By century's end, only one side survived. For 400 years after Columbus arrived in the New World, much of American history involved warfare between...

Closing the golden door.(Immigration)(Cover Story)
November 15, 1996... America's "golden door" used to beckon to the world's tired and poor. But a recent flood of immigrants has unleashed a debate over whether the U.S. can take in any more people and how we should treat those who are already here. The...

Closing the borders: do immigrants hurt the economy - or help it?(Immigration)(Cover Story)
November 15, 1996... Is immigration still the backbone of the United States? Or is it time to check the flood of immigrants? Over the next pages' we lay out three key issues in the immigration debate. Read them and decide for yourself whether the "golden door" to the...

English spoken here: should schools and street signs be in English only?(Immigration)(Cover Story)
November 15, 1996... In many communities across America, immigrants can live their entire lives without ever having to learn English. Street signs in some Miami neighborhoods are printed in both English and Spanish. Immigrants in California can vote in six...

The right to learn: do illegal immigrants have a right to public education?(Immigration)(Cover Story)
November 15, 1996... If you attend public school, chances are you know at least one classmate who wasn't born in this country. You might study the same subjects, eat the same school lunches, and even play on the same sports teams after school. But if they are...

Hardship and dreams.(three young immigrant narratives)(Slice Of Life)(Immigration)
November 15, 1996... In the controversy over immigration, it's easy to forget that the debate is about real people. Immigrants to the U.S., building new lives in a land far from home, are confronted with difficult questions about who they are and where they're from....

Coming to America.(history of US immigration)(Look Back)(Immigration)(Cover Story)
November 15, 1996... For more than 300 years, immigrants from every corner of the globe have set tied in America, creating the most diverse nation on earth. Though immigrants have given much to the country, their passage here was never easy, nor their welcome always...

People without a land: attacked by enemies and betrayed by friends, the Kurdish people fight for survival.
November 15, 1996... In the early morning hours of September 3, sailors aboard the U.S.S. Shiloh watched solemnly as Tomahawk missiles sliced their way through the sky on their way to Iraq. The missiles slammed into air-defense sites in southern Iraq. President...

The strike of the century.(1892 Carnegie Steel Co. strike)
November 15, 1996... In 1892, the nation's most powerful union fought an armed battle against the world's mightiest corporation. The outcome defined labor relations for decades. By 1890, the Industrial Revolution had dramatically changed the way Americans...