Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some in Cuba, however, doubted the policy change would be any more of a deterrent than the sharks, the hunger, the stormy seas that refugees were already braving. In the Havana suburb of Miramar, the news that boat people would be detained did not deter a young Cuban who was hurrying to finish his raft. "I'll take my chances," he said. "They won't send us back...
They are young and old, peasants and professionals, pregnant women and children. They came in rafts made of ropes and inner tubes, catamarans built in living rooms, boats made from beds and old car engines. One young boy survived the journey after his parents gave him their only life jacket and handed him over to another boat -- before they themselves disappeared beneath the waves. A group of rafters watched in horror as the limb of a fellow refugee floated by; he had gone crazy from hallucinations and had jumped into the ocean, only to be attacked by a shark...
...been brought on by American actions." With the rate of intercepted refugees at 3,200 a day, Department of Defense officials decided to send as many as 9,000 extra soldiers to join 3,000 now at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base to run detention camps for the boat people. The start-up cost: $100 million. Running the camp will cost the U.S. about $20 million a month - or $15 a day per Cuban refugee...
...laughing matter, however. In the past two weeks, three ferries have been hijacked by refugees trying to flee Cuba. And when crowds started gathering on Havana's Malecon seafront drive last Friday to see if hijackers would commandeer yet another boat, the police moved in, sparking a rock- throwing melee and the worst anti-government demonstrations since Fidel Castro came to power...
...eerie replay of the events that led up to the 1980 Mariel boatlift, when 125,000 disaffected Cubans flooded the U.S. Then, Castro had responded to Jimmy Carter's blanket offer of asylum by opening the port of Mariel for any boat that wanted to leave. And last week Castro was again quick to play his trump card. He toured the scene of the rioting in a jeep and later appeared on Cuban TV to accuse the U.S. of provoking the incident. "I do not want to say there will be another Mariel," he said. "But either they take serious...