The Nation - News from March 27, 1986
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Immigration officials unveiled a new tool to help keep terrorists, drug smugglers and other undesirables from entering the country--a computer system that gives access to nearly 60 million constantly revised files. The system, which is expected to be installed by October at the nation’s major points of entry, will replace a cumbersome book that names 40,000 inadmissible aliens, or people wanted by federal law enforcement agencies, and takes six weeks to update. The first terminals of the National Automated Immigration Lookout System went on line at Newark International Airport in New Jersey.
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