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...Dade County rental houses and apartments is a mere 1%, and the county has received no federal public housing money in 14 years. Though Washington claims that 85% of the Cuban boat people have been placed with sponsors, many are stacked in crowded matchbox dwellings in Little Havana with distant relatives who have agreed reluctantly to let them stay for a while. Some 750 Cubans live in Campamento del Rio (River Camp), a group of Army squad tents nestled under the elevated highway Interstate 95. People wash at spigots; laundry flutters from wire fences; young, bare-chested men wander morosely...
Kennedy promised to campaign for Carter, but, like his appearance on the podium with the President, he will be restrained and distant from the current occupant of the White House. His campaigning this fall will be cautious, linked mostly to his friendship with Senators and Congressmen who want his help. He made it clear that the degree of his support for Carter will depend on the President's economic pronouncements. Kennedy believes that Carter must focus his campaign on the economy, which the Senator said is "the area where we were able to get some response." Even so, Kennedy thinks...
When Jimmy Carter stood before the 1976 Democratic National Convention and pledged "new leadership," he had never met a Democratic President or slept in the White House. The presidency was a legend from books, the Federal Government a classroom exercise, and Washington was a distant citadel of power that somehow had been corrupted by its residents. "It's time for the people to run the Government," Carter told his audience in that moment of warm, rising hope that filled New York's Madison Square Garden...
...buckle during the first two months of the America's Cup trials. Ted Turner has cause to be subdued. With the third and final round of the trials set to begin next week, Courageous has won only six races and lost 19, leaving her a distant second to Freedom (31-2) and only marginally better than Clipper (7-24). In Newport, R.I., site of the 129-year-old competition, a cruel whisper is making the rounds: "Ted is dead...
...meters was won by Soviet Victor Markin, 23, in 44.60, the fastest time recorded in the event in two years. Finishing a game but distant fourth was Alberto Juantorena, 29, called El Caballo (the Horse) in 1976 when he breezed to victories in the 400 and 800. This time, the Cuban was off his form, still suffering the effects of Achilles' tendon surgery last fall. He was a scratch...