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...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...
Maurice E. Friot, M.D. Marco Island, Fla...
Lawrence A. Wiegman Orlando, Fla...
...dangerously crowded boats continued bringing Cuban refugees into Key West, Fla., the incoming tide rose to nearly 31,000-and the words of welcome from Washington hardly solved the near chaos created by the sudden influx. How many more Cubans would follow, nobody seemed to know-speculation ranged wildly upward to a quarter of a million, even to 1 million-and that raised the difficult question of whether there are practical limits to the number of refugees the U.S. can take...
...keep off the loan sharks. Their staggering losses in silver the past couple of months have forced them to go, stetson in hand, to bankers in the U.S. and abroad. The weekend after Silver Thursday, they showed up uninvited at the Reserve City Bankers Association convention in Boca Raton, Fla., to plead for help in meeting their debts. The brothers supposedly told leading bankers that they probably owed about $1.7 billion. Over cups of coffee and cold cheese sandwiches, the moneymen debated long into the night whether to give the Hunts a loan. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker made...