Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind the barbed wire and chain-link fences at Fort McCoy, in the bucolic farm land of western Wisconsin, young Hispanic men have stripped off their shirts because of the sweltering summer heat. But when asked what the 5,000 Cuban refugees at the sprawling Army base need most, Tómas Rodriguez, president of their governing council, replies: "Warm clothing for the cold weather that is coming." Has he no hope, then, that most of them will be resettled before winter? "No," answers Rodriguez. "If we were to say yes, we would be fooling ourselves...
Chances are that he is right. Fort McCoy once was the gateway to a new life for Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro's island; almost 10,000 have passed through and been placed with American sponsors. Now it is a kind of prison, an extreme example of the difficulties the U.S. faces in assimilating the last of the 120,000 Cubans who have flooded the country since April, emblematic of some of the reasons for the despair that has driven a handful of refugees to hijack American airliners to Havana. The seventh U.S. hijacking in 26 days occurred last week...
...held until sponsors can be found to give them homes, 1,000 troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division stood guard over 4,000 Cubans last week to prevent a repetition of the Aug. 5 riot in which 16 camp officials and 42 Cubans were injured, one fatally. In Fort McCoy, Wis., homosexual attacks and knife fights have broken out among the 5,300 Cubans housed in the camp; many are refugees under 18 who face continued idleness in what they view as a prison unless good Samaritans can be found who will assume legal guardianship as foster parents...
...months ahead, Carter and Mondale aides expect to draw ever more frequently from material in the black binders. For instance, either candidate can hit back hard at Reagan's bid for the black vote by recalling his 1976 claim in a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., speech that working people at a supermarket checkout counter were "outraged" when they saw a "strapping young buck" buy T-bone steaks with food stamps. Carter-Mondale researchers have also found that in January Reagan said of U.S. attempts to prevent more countries from obtaining nuclear arms: "I just don't think...
Brett J. Robinson Fort Collins, Colo...