Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring of 1980, when thousands of Cubans were mobbing the port city of Mariel for their helter-skelter exodus to the shores of Florida, President Fidel Castro denounced the emigrants as escoria (scum). As if to ensure that he was at least partly correct, Castro added some convicts and mental patients to the Mariel horde. Indeed, of the 125,000 "Marielitos" who landed in Florida, 1,709 have been jailed by federal authorities as undesirables, and 587 more have been locked up until they can find sponsors. Nearly all the rest have settled in Dade County, which includes Miami...
...Communists had reason to celebrate. In the past two decades, the Wall has helped stem the mass exodus that saw East Germany lose 3.6 million people between 1945 and the dawn of Aug. 13, 1961. Since then fewer than 200,000 have escaped. Some of the 72 who failed are remembered by small, weather-worn crosses that mark the sites along the Wall where they were killed in the attempt...
...suburbs, Rouse argues, "sucked the blood out of the central cities and left behind some of the urban basket cases we see today." The middle-class exodus from the cities was to a large extent facilitated by the Federal Government, which built the freeways, provided relatively low-interest FHA and G.I. mortgages, and allowed homeowners to discount mortgage interest against their income taxes. Rouse believes the American city could well have gone the way of the brontosaurus, the dodo and the 30 stamp...
...contends that such motives have nothing to do with politics, that Haiti's once notorious government repression has subsided in the past decade and the immigrants will probably not be punished as they are returned. Indeed, the Haitian authorities are making no real effort to halt the exodus: the 400,000-member exile community in the U.S. sends perhaps $100 million back to their families on the island every year, and the escape route tempers unemployment and hopelessness...
...most dramatic manifestation, to some observers, is a disheartening exodus. Each month fully 2,000 Israelis leave for other lands. While demographers explain that this is a normal outflow for a free society, the trend runs counter to Israel's very reason for being. The emigrants' motives are mixed, but their departure suggests a loss of the visionary strength common to the pioneers of an earlier generation, who often risked their lives to get into-and stay in-Israel...