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Some 1,000 Haitians are in Dade County's Krome Avenue North Detention Center, which is designed for no more than 530 people. The fortunate former detainees who have been released to sponsors are likely to be found in Little Haiti, the neighborhood north of 36th Street in Miami. "The Haitians take care of each other as well as they can," says Fernand Cayard, owner of a local supermarket. "No one is sleeping on the streets." Jean François, a 25-year-old Haitian, shares a three-bedroom wooden frame house with 19 fellow refugees. "Everyone sleeps in shifts," explains...
Beckford, who had finished 90th and 36th in her previous two years in competition, said afterwards, she was surprised at how good she had felt during the race. "I was huffing and puffing after the first hill, but I had a lot left towards the end. In the past years I could have crawled across the finish line...
NOTEBOOK: Senior Maureen Devlin, who was Harvard's fifth finisher in the GBCs in 1978 with a time of 19:54, yesterday lopped 40 seconds off her best time to finish 36th in a field of 84 runners...
...that first meeting went smoothly enough, the diplomatic parrying at the U.N. General Assembly's 36th session did not. Delegates were somewhat surprised that Haig chose to address the assembly on the problems of promoting the economic growth of poor nations, rather than on East-West issues. He rejected a Third World proposal for a massive shift of wealth from rich nations to poor nations as "unrealistic" and emphasized private investment as a potential cure for poverty. The solution did not sit well with many of his listeners...
After eight months of lobbing intercontinental accusations and insults at each other, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have the first opportunity this week to engage each other at close quarters. In New York City to attend the 36th session of the U.N. General Assembly, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will twice meet in private. Those sessions will be the first eyeball-to-eyeball contacts at the policymaking level since President Reagan's Inauguration...