Word: eglin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In May Cuban refugees flee Castro, and the U.S. greets them at first with an "open arms" policy, then a state of emergency in Florida, then a closing of the open arms?the entire pilgrimage eventually capped off with riots at Eglin Air Force
This week Dinnan's 90 days are up. He may be returned to the courtroom to face Judge Owens again. And his case is also being reviewed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Meanwhile he has remained in prison at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. In a one-page broadside, New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook blasted Judge Owens' decision as "one of the crassest illustrations of ill-considered and unjustified interventions of our imperial judiciary into the educational process." If discussions of promotion and tenure are to adhere to academic standards...
...breakout followed by only two days a more violent melee at the refugee processing center at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., where 200 Cubans jumped the fence. Some of them threw rocks and bricks at military police. The police eventually corralled them and isolated 68 in a more secure compound...
...arrived at Key West, Fla., with visions of freedom and a better life. But they were herded onto planes and flown to one of four refugee camps, where they began the dreary game of waiting as center officials slowly processed them. Of the 7,500 refugees now living at Eglin, 5,000 have been there since the center opened on May 3. Arkansas' Fort Chaffee remains filled with 18,800, Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., holds 15,000, and the just opened Camp McCoy near Sparta, Wis., has 172. "The boredom is overwhelming," complained Luis Martinez, an engineering technician...
...refugees who have landed on U.S. soil in the past two months have been resettled, but the pace promises to wind on just as slowly as in the past. "We're going to do something about the delays," said an Army colonel through a bullhorn last week at Eglin. "We ask your patience just a little while longer." The refugees feel they know otherwise. A sign on one of their tents sums up their anxiety. QUEREMOS SALIDA, reads the scrawled message. WE WANT...