Word: fema
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem began when 112,000 Cubans arrived in the space of 48 days-a logistical nightmare that flummoxed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the bureau charged with coordinating the resettlement process. Says William Combs, chief spokesman for the FEMA: "We had to set up while it was still happening." One key problem turned out to be a communications snafu between the federal agency and the private organizations that find homes for the refugees after they are cleared. The Immigration and Naturalization Service had approved 4,000 Fort Chaffee refugees for resettlement after concluding that they were not criminals. Simultaneously...