Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most refugees from Fidel Castro's Cuba, Miami seems like a home away from home-at least the way home used to be. In addition to its sunny climate and palm trees, an abundance of Havana-style restaurants and Spanish-speaking radio stations, Miami boasts the largest concentration of Cubans outside Castroland. About 180,000 refugees-two-thirds of the total-have settled there since 1959 and have quickly adapted to Yanqui ways. They are generally law-abiding and hardworking. The city's unemployment rate is down from a high of 12% in 1962 to 4.7%, and only...
...their part, most Miamians welcomed the newcomers-but that does not mean Miami wants still more Cubans. While Havana and Washington negotiated the arrangements concluded last week for a new exodus from Cuba, a wave of apprehension and resentment swept the city. The evacuation by U.S. chartered planes will begin by Dec. 1 and bring in between 3,000 and 4,000 refugees a month...
...UnAmerican Statements." Gardner's most welcome pledge was that as many Cubans as possible will be encouraged to settle elsewhere. Priority for departure from Cuba will be given to refugees whose relatives live outside Miami, on the theory that the newcomers will follow their kin. Even so, the Federal Government cannot force them to live in any particular place. Of the 2,800 Cubans who arrived by boat before Castro closed Camarioca last week, 2,200 have registered with the Refugee Emergency Center; only 1,450 have agreed to settle outside Miami...
Since Sept. 28 when Fidel Castro opened the gates for Cubans who wanted out of his Communist dictatorship, some 3,000 refugees have come streaming helter-skelter across the storm-tossed Florida Straits in everything from 110-ft. cruisers to leaky outboards. Last week the U.S. and Cuba were finally close to a formal agreement that will guarantee the "safe and orderly exodus" that the U.S. has been seeking from the first. In Havana, Swiss Ambassador Emil Stadelhofer spent more than seven hours talking to Castro, including one long session in a suburban pizzeria. Stadelhofer then reported that the Cuban...
...from a dozen boats swamped by the rough seas. "You just wonder how many went down unnoticed," said an exile, who lost his own boat 50 miles south of Key West. And then there was the distraught exile who could not get up the price of a boat to Cuba to get his family out, and unsuccessfully tried to hijack a National Airlines Electra bound from Miami to Key West. Washington could only sigh with relief that an agreement for a "safe and orderly" evacuation apparently was near...