Word: guantanamo
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...Huddled together under a drab army tent, six Cuban refugees trade fantasies about an uprising to liberate the detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, where they have been imprisoned for the past four months. They couldn't know that later in the week, 1,000 Cubans at a detention camp in Panama would riot, and that before it was over, more than 220 American soldiers would be injured and 19 Cubans hospitalized. That was at a camp with only about 8,500 refugees; at Guantanamo there are 22,500, making it potentially even more explosive...
...guns with an octopus-like tourism outfit called Gaviota, which runs health spas, marinas and luxury hotels. At hunting preserves formerly reserved for the army, visitors shoot duck in some of Fidel's favorite stalking grounds. Gaviota takes tourists to the outskirts of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo and lets them spy on troop movements -- cocktails and binoculars included. TRD Caribe, the newest arm of Gaviota, is the fastest-growing chain of department stores. TRD, appropriately enough, stands for tienda recaudacion en divisas -- literally, "store to rake in the dollars...
...resumed this evening. TIME correspondent Cathy Booth, in Havana, reports that chief Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon alleged "the Cuban Mafia in Miami" had jeopardized implementation of Havana's immigration pact with the U.S. by filing suit yesterday to block 1,000 Cuban refugees detained at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay from returning home. What the Cubans omitted: Most refugees who were to be returned to Cuba -- as Havana wanted -- really want to come to the U.S. Today, U.S. officials reversed themselves, vowing to send no one home without permission...
About 30,000 Cubans who tried to reach U.S. shores, but instead wound up detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base, got a sliver of hope today. In Miami, a federal judge blocked the U.S. from repatriating them pending a hearing tomorrow, forcing an immigration official to race to a pay phone to stop a plane carrying 23 refugees from taking...
...Florida Straits in early August, the folksy, eccentric Governor looked vulnerable to Bush's claims that he was out of touch with Florida's economic interests. By month's end, however, he was Florida's Horatius at the immigration bridge, prevailing upon a reluctant Clinton to intern at Guantanamo those rafters plucked from the sea. Almost overnight, Chiles commandeered Florida's red-hot immigration debate and became the only gubernatorial Friend of Bill's with valid anti-Bill credentials...