Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Near Fort Myers, Fla., a relatively new barrier island heaped up by the sea has attracted developers who want to link it to the mainland with a causeway; that, says Florida Environmental Consultant Dinesh Sharma, "would ruin the entire key." To the west in Louisiana, near Baton Rouge, landowners eyeing big profits from rich agricultural holdings support a plan that would fill in backwater swamps. Conservationists are fighting the idea, saying it would dry up an ecologically valuable resource...
Other imitators of Mesa have already appeared. Southland Royalty of Fort Worth will soon put 50% of its $3 billion in oil and gas holdings into trust. Within a week after that announcement was made, South land's stock rose 46%, to $102. In a variant of Pickens' idea, Houston Oil & Minerals set up a trust combining older wells and an interest in 40 major prospects, mostly how the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of giving the shares to its stockholders, how ever, thereby Oil & Minerals sold them on the open market. The firm thereby raised $60 million, which...
...Cubans still at Fort McCoy are a hard-core remnant of the boatlift. More than 90% of them are single men aged 18 to 35 with no relatives in the U.S., few job skills and no knowledge of English; many are barely literate even in Spanish. Some came from Cuban jails or mental hospitals. Among the inmates are 266 juveniles under 18 who are caught in a bureaucratic snarl. They cannot be adopted by American families under a federal administrative ruling that would require the consent of their parents, who are still in Cuba and cannot be reached...
Idle, bored and facing indefinite confinement, some of the refugees have turned Fort McCoy into a place of terror. Barely a week goes by without a stabbing incident; there are repeated reports of homosexual and heterosexual rape. Fear of revenge keeps most of the victims from complaining to camp authorities. Monroe County Circuit Court Judge James W. Rice says that one boy who appeared in his court seeking release from the camp "told me that he had a knife held to his throat by a group of older boys. They demanded that he commit a homosexual act." The youth...
...nearby houses. Says he: "Some of the people around here are getting pretty riled." Tensions will be relieved soon: the camp is scheduled to close by the end of September, when all of the 14,000 Cubans still remaining in centers throughout the country are to be concentrated in Fort Chaffee, Ark. But for the great majority of Fort McCoy's refugees, the move probably will mean only that they will be submerged in a larger pool of Cubans who are seeking U.S. sponsors Slim as their chances have been for getting out of Fort McCoy, the hardened refugees...