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County public safety department is now beefing up its 1,726-member force with 1,000 new recruits (starting salary: $17,800). Another 100 U.S. Customs Service agents have been assigned to the region to chase down drug smugglers. South Florida can also look for help from Governor Graham. He...
Still they come, for Haiti is both a desperately poor country?its per capita income of $260 a year is among the world's lowest?and an oppressive dictatorship, ruled by Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. The Reagan Administration holds that nearly all the Haitian refugees are fleeing their country...
Hope Somoza, the widow of the Nicaraguan President, lives in Key Biscayne. Nicole Duvalier, who opposes her brother Baby Doc, owns a sumptuous home in southwest Miami. The son of the late Fulgencio Batista, former President of Cuba, works as a model in Fort Lauderdale. A retired leader of the...
He decided early on to be "a spectator of history" and succeeded admirably. His itinerary is a check list of modern crises. He was in Mexico in 1938, during a persecution of the Catholic Church, and in London during the blitz. He learned to love Viet Nam and opium during...
Nowhere, however, do the tensions and torments equal those in southern Florida, especially Bade County and its central city, Miami. More than half the Cuban refugees have been encamped there, joined by the vast majority of 30,000 black Haitians fleeing extreme poverty and the political repression of Jean-Claude...