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...because passing ships refused to help them, or Asian governments denied them haven. For 384,000 surviving boat people, there seemed to be no better prospect than interminable months in fetid "holding centers" in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Even today, the bobbing skiffs that still flee Viet Nam are prey to ruthless Thai pirates who rape the women and plunder the refugees' belongings - in one documented case, even the gold fillings from their teeth...
...drops to a hardly bearable 12.7% as the year ends. February is also the month when the U.S. hockey team's victory over the Soviets ignites national pride. But in April the U.S. boycotts the Summer Olympic Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In May Cuban refugees flee Castro, and the U.S. greets them at first with an "open arms" policy, then a state of emergency in Florida, then a closing of the open arms?the entire pilgrimage eventually capped off with riots at Eglin Air Force
...experienced a renaissance over the last ten years. A series of major city block renovations, new civic centers and shopping complexes, parks, theaters, and restaurants have capped a program all aimed at drawing people back into the city. So far it's been successful; young working couples no longer flee to the suburbs, they rent fashionable brownstone apartments in the Shadyside quarter or buy and restore one of many beautiful but dilapidated "Pittsburgh style" houses, built on a grand scale around the turn of the century...
Over the next year, competing entrepreneurs were ordered to form collectives, and longtime-resident Chinese traders were advised to flee altogether. The regime dealt with rising unemployment by packing some 250,000 people off to rural work camps called "new economic zones...
...after Marcos finished his speech, a bomb went off 20 rows away, exploding the facade of control he had tried to hard to project. While he and the U.S. Ambassador. Richard W. Murphy, escaped unharmed, 20 were injured (none fatally), As the travel agents scurried to the airport to flee the Philippines, it is safe to presume that package vacation deals to the Philippines were not foremost in their minds...