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Most of the Cubans had a common destination: Fort Chaffee, Ark., where the Carter Administration has decided to consolidate some 10,000 refugees who arrived during the 159-day boatlift and have not yet been settled. The boatlift ended two weeks ago, when Cuban President Fidel Castro closed the port of Mariel. Altogether, 125,262 Cuban men, women and children fled to the U.S. during the boatlift. Most of them quickly began new lives with the help of relatives already in the U.S. and private sponsors. The remainder are chiefly young men with little English or job skills-and little...
...have been ludicrous had it not taken place between two members of an Air Force team searching frantically for a nine-megaton warhead, 450 times the yield of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The warhead was blown from the Titan II missile that exploded into flames near Damascus, Ark., two weeks ago. Despite pleas by nearby residents for reassurance that there was no danger of toxic fumes or radiation, the Air Force was determined to keep secret for a time the embarrassing fact that the warhead had been lost and then found a short time later, intact but slightly...
Bryant's long career began in Moro Bottom, Ark. His father was a hardscrabble farmer struggling to eke out a living in the Depression South. When the elder Bryant was disabled by high blood pressure, his wife Ida kept the family going by selling vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon. Young Paul perched beside her and felt the sting of disparagement from the "city kids" of nearby Fordyce (pop. 3,206). He first won social acceptance as a fiercely combative football player for the state-champ Fordyce Redbugs, and football has since made him the guest of Presidents...
...Says he: "Some of the people around here are getting pretty riled." Tensions will be relieved soon: the camp is scheduled to close by the end of September, when all of the 14,000 Cubans still remaining in centers throughout the country are to be concentrated in Fort Chaffee, Ark. But for the great majority of Fort McCoy's refugees, the move probably will mean only that they will be submerged in a larger pool of Cubans who are seeking U.S. sponsors Slim as their chances have been for getting out of Fort McCoy, the hardened refugees from Wisconsin...
DIED. Lucious Christopher Bates, 79, a prominent black publisher who, with his wife Daisy (then president of the Arkansas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), coached and supported nine black students in their historic 1957 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.; following intestinal surgery; in Little Rock...