Word: eglin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuban refugees have so far landed on U.S. soil, with thousands more still expected to arrive on the boats now at Mariel. Authorities opened a new refugee processing center last week at the military reservation in Indiantown Gap, Pa., to handle the spillover from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base and Arkansas' Fort Chaffee. By week's end the new camp held a capacity crowd of 20,000 and a fourth center, Camp McCoy near Sparta, Wis., opened its gates...
...West. Yet some 1,500 American craft still lay in Mariel, capable of carrying an average of 45 refugees each-a potential capacity of 67,500, which is even more than the roughly 50,000 refugees already being processed at such centers at Opa-Locka, Florida's Eglin Air Force Base and Fort Chaffee in Arkansas...
Improvising to meet each day's challenge, U.S. officials mobilized an impressive reception. In less than a week, a city of 161 tents, each holding 30 refugees within its 18-ft. by 52-ft. space, sprang up at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle. Long rows of cots completely jammed two 150-ft. by. 240-ft. aircraft hangars, which normally shelter such fighters as the F-15 and F4. With a dormitory and gymnasium also opened to the newcomers, the base alone held nearly 10,000 refugees. Tall pines were being felled to make room for even...
...Cuba years ago. All the while, more kept landing at Key West, to be bused from dockside to Key West Naval Air Station. There up to 5,000 waited, both inside and on surrounding concrete aprons of a huge airplane hangar, for other buses to Miami or airplanes to Eglin...
Just where the Cubans can go and how they will fare once there remains the ultimate problem for the U.S., and the answer will depend on the human reactions of many Americans. At Eglin Air Force Base, two soldiers laboring in the Florida sun to erect tents wondered why they were working so hard. "I don't really feel this is a job for the military," said one. Added the other: "I felt that way this morning, but I've changed my mind. These people are so grateful." In Key West, one 75-year-old man slowly climbed...