Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton sat down with his top advisers last week to figure out what to do with the thousands of Cuban refugees floating toward Florida on every kind of makeshift raft they could tie together, there seemed no other choice. The President had already insisted he would not let the boat people into the U.S. proper -- that was politically unacceptable -- but the refugee flow swelled rather than ebbed. Blockade the island? Not really; that would be an act of war. Send the refugees back to Castro? Too heartless, and besides, he would not take them...
...knew that the Administration now refused to let them into the U.S. When they heard the news from the reporters, they were stunned, overwhelmed, disbelieving. "There is no way to go for us?" stammered Reynaldo Valido, a professor of English in Matanzas province until he fled in a rickety boat Aug. 18, the day before Clinton announced the exclusion policy. He was too shocked to say anything more for several minutes, and then murmured, "It's a big deception of the U.S. government if they say that." Carlo Vilajeras, a Pentecostal minister, agrees: "Clinton is not just. We hope that...
...disaffected keep coming in numbers sufficient to overflow Guantanamo, Clinton will have to look again at the options he has tried mightily to dodge. His major goal so far has been to avoid, at almost all costs, a replay of the Mariel boat lift. That 1980 exodus dumped 125,000 refugees in five months into Florida and from there to other Southern states unready to receive them. The fiasco badly hurt not only President Carter but also Bill Clinton, who believes he was defeated for re-election as Governor of Arkansas in part because Cuban refugees sent to Fort Chaffee...
...past, and he has been disappointed that a Democratic Administration in Washington has not proved more receptive to dealing with him. So Castro let it be known that his police would no longer arrest or even try to stop Cubans attempting to flee by makeshift boat or raft. Ergo, two problems solved at once: angry Cubans were distracted from turning their despair against Fidel, and he certainly got Washington's attention...
...exodus. That's just one item on the list when U.S and Cuban officials meet in New York City on Thursday. They'll also discuss "credible reports" cited today by U.S. officials at the Guantanamo Naval base that Cuba has released minimum security prisoners, allowing them to join the boat people on rafts headed for Florida. Meanwhile, the influx of Cubans headed for Florida began climbing after a virtual halt during weekend storms. Hundreds of people in home-made rafts set off from beaches near Havana Monday night, and by mid-afternoon the U.S. Coast Guard reported intercepting 731 people...