Word: dade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missing teeth, is resolute. "If they mean to return me to Haiti, they can shoot me, they can kill me, I am not going back," he declares. "I am not going back to that life of nothing." The man is an inmate at Krome Avenue North Detention Center, in Dade County, Fla., a federal compound of tents and concrete barracks that holds 1,160 of his countrymen. They are among 13,000 Haitians who had the misfortune to arrive in the U.S. after Oct. 10, the Carter Administration's cut off date for immigration amnesty...
More than 70% of the Marielitos settled in Miami's Dade County, joining 600,000 Cubans already there. Particularly in Little Havana, on Miami's near southwest side, the new wave is vividly manifest: everywhere there are shoeshine stands and new immigrants on the streets hawking lemons and limes, flowers, hot peanuts and granizado (flavored ice). But the newcomers' statistical imprint is less charming. Most of them receive food stamps, and 45,000 live below the Government's official poverty line for the area ($7,412 for a family of four). They are committing suicide...
South Florida is becoming the heart of darkness. In Dade County this year, at least 200 aluminum poles have been stolen from storage yards or felled at roadside with axes and blowtorches. Police estimate that the 40-ft., 300-lb. poles, which cost the county $1,500 each to replace, bring anywhere from 40? to $1 per lb. on the black market...
...traffic accidents have been attributed to the missing poles. But who knows what may happen if the thefts continue. Dade County, which encompasses Miami and many of its suburbs, has only four workers to maintain-and replace-8,000 poles...
...purse; a jittery mugger may misunderstand and attack you. Instead, tell him in advance what you plan to do and then move slowly. Always carry some cash with you. If your pockets are empty, some muggers will turn violent out of sheer frustration. Says Detective Ray Southerland of the Dade County public safety department: "Never give an armed robber the excuse he is looking for to work you over...