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...ironic, for liberty was precisely what the hard-pressed federal officials running the camp were trying to give the refugees-and as swiftly as possible. But the sheer magnitude of the task, plus some inexcusable lack of coordination, slowed the process to a maddening crawl for people who had expected to be quickly reunited with their families on American soil. The result was yet another frustrating incident in the long chain of false starts and policy shifts that have marked the U.S. treatment of the Cubans...
...logs to reach her. We were lucky that the logs opened up and I could pull her out." The two were carried about a mile down the river before a family of campers spotted them and heard Reitan calling for help. It took the rescuers about 45 minutes to crawl across the mud and logs and pull Reitan and Dergen to safety...
...that the Palfreys had selected her, when she was eight, because of her grave intelligence and unusual looks. For her and the reader the cruel blow comes early: her real parents turn out to be murderers of the most melodramatic sort. For the rest of the story James must crawl back from a cliché that might have been assigned to her in a nightmare game of charades. That she does so is no small achievement, but she must use all the devices of suspense: obscene acts that are half-forgotten, split-timed suicide, public facts that are fortuitously hidden...
...attack hastened the militia's retreat; others, though, turned around and fought. One old man knelt by his shot-filled tricorner hat and fired ineffectually at the British until he was stabbed through the heart. Another, Jonathan Harrington, was mortally wounded but managed to crawl across the common to his doorstep before dying in the arms of his wife...
...With the loss of staff, there will be some slowdown in timing. The challenge we face is not to let that slowdown become a crawl," Wolfman said...