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After months of negotiations, the State Department thought that it had succeeded several weeks ago in arranging the exodus. The U.S. was to pay Cubana Airlines some $250,000 to fly the Americans and their 1,700 dependents to Mexico City, where the refugees could be transferred to U.S.-bound planes. The State Department even announced that one planeload was on its way. Not so, replied the Cuban government. The plane, it announced, had turned back because of "engine trouble...
Author William J. Lederer was invited to the platform by Alton B. Fry, a visiting member of the Center for International Studies, to answer a question about a mass exodus of North Vietnamese to the South. This movement, Lederer said, is often used to support the Administration policy. But actually some priests told North Vietnamese Catholics that Jesus and Mary now lived in South Vietnam, and the people believed...
...exodus of name singers, the Italian audiences can in part blame themselves. "They hiss or whistle too easily," says Soprano Mirella Freni. "I like a certain battle climate, but in Italy every evening is a graduation exam...
...possible reason: those who applied for release under the Gideon ruling ranked surprisingly higher in mental and physical health than the rest of Florida's prison population. As an ironic result, Gideon's adverse effect has been not on society but on the prison system itself. The exodus has created a shortage of inmates at Florida's 36 road-gang camps, forcing officials to man the camps with unreliable prisoners who had previously been confined in regular cells. As a result, the post-Gideon escape rate per 1,000 prisoners has jumped in Florida's road...
Battle Fatigue. The old squad's exodus stems neither from policy differences within the Administration nor from any personality conflict with an always demanding, often difficult President. Most of the men who came in with the New Frontier are victims of battle fatigue after five long years of physical exhaustion and intellectual enervation. "After you've butted your head against the same old problems for a while," rues one oldtimer, "you just don't charge as hard any more...