Word: civilians
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...recreational facilities. Tents, flown in from the U.S. mainland, are being set up on the base's softball and baseball diamonds, a soccer field, even the paltry sand-and-rock golf course; the beach where the soldiers and sailors swim will soon house the headquarters of a military- civilian task force that will oversee the camps. Military spouses and children are being flown out because of electric-power and water rationing. But enough land is available to put up tents for the Cubans in clusters holding about 2,500 people each, and to keep plenty of elbow room between their...
...government gradually to share power, even permitting election of the country's first Hutu President, Melchior Ndadaye, in June 1993. That process came to an abrupt halt in October when Ndadaye was murdered in a failed coup by renegade Tutsi troops, who feared the Hutu were grabbing too many civilian jobs and military posts for themselves. In a wave of ensuing reprisals, 100,000 Burundians were killed and 500,000 left their homes to gather in safer encampments. The country's interim President, also a Hutu, died with Rwanda's leader...
...central Havana last week, all ferry passengers were being searched with metal detectors. Security and vigilance have been heightened in the weeks since three harbor ferries were hijacked by Cubans hoping to reach Florida. Police and civilian militia patrolled the docks, and all around the bay shipping companies had taken on armed guards to keep their vessels from being stolen. At Hemingway Marina, which plays host to the annual Hemingway deep-sea fishing tournament, the tourist boats were under guard by police...
Gridlock wasn't fully triumphant as the House voted 280 to 137 to pass President Clinton's $263.8 billion defense budget. Provisions include $3.5 billion to help laid-off defense contractors find work in civilian businesses, and a 2.6% raise for military personnel. The budget will reach the Senate shortly...
...were a card game," he says, "there's only one card left, and that's the ace": invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving a flop. Lieut. General Raoul Cedras is rumored to be making $50,000 a day off the black market, and Haiti's civilian elite have every luxury "but Kellogg's corn flakes . . . By the time the embargo reaches the well-to-do, there probably won't be a country left to save...