Word: clintons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insistence of Arkansas Governor Billy Clinton, the State Department's Cuban-Haitian Task Force will not send more than 10,000 refugees to Fort Chaffee. Any overflow from the other camps is supposed to be sent to Puerto Rico, where 250 Navy Seabees last week were constructing shelters for up to 5,000 refugees at Fort Allen, an old military base 40 miles southwest of San Juan. Puerto Rico has sued to stop the transfer, arguing that Fort Allen has inadequate sewage and water purification plants and antiquated electrical systems...
...Giant Food chain in the Washington area last week opened its first warehouse store in Clinton, Md. The prices are low, but the atmosphere is somber. The new warehouse carries less than half as many items as the chain's regular stores, and goods are put out on shelves while still in their shipping cartons. Individual items no longer carry the cost stamped on the top; prices are carried in the striped code that is read at the computerized checkouts. As a result, operating expenses are low, permitting the store to keep down its prices...
...police scoured the countryside for the refugees. They found many of them, frightened and bewildered, holding hands as they walked timidly along country roads. By morning, authorities believed they had rounded up all the escapees and returned them to the base. Though no injuries were reported, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton dispatched 100 National Guardsmen to strengthen the camp's security detail...
...former Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, 77, Georgetown University's commencement was old mortarboard. Lodge's honorary degree was his 30th. But it was novel for Arkansas' Bill Clinton, 33, the nation's youngest Governor and Georgetown's commencement speaker. Only twelve years ago, Clinton approached the same platform for his bachelor's degree. Adjusting Clinton's tassel before the ceremonies, Lodge also proffered some advice on graduation speechmaking: "You can't be too long, too heavy or too light...
...other bands, though, have completely restructured themselves. As a result, "no wave" has become as meaningless a term as punk or new wave. James Chance of the Contortions has fired all the musicians from the original Contortions and has broadened his scope so he can become the George Clinton of rock and roll. Robin Crutchfield, organist from DNA, is on his own, developing moody synthesizer compositions, a la Eno. Arto Lindsay continues to lead the greatly crippled and drastically redirected DNA. The agonizing edge to the music has been replaced by craftsmanship and care...