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...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...
Jobless and homeless in a strange country, some of the disillusioned Cuban refugees not only talk of wanting to go back home, a few have been driven to desperate measures. Two weeks ago, Cubans seized six airliners, three on Aug. 16 alone, and forced the pilots to fly to Havana; the skyjackings set records for the most in one week and the most in a single day. Stern security measures, augmented by reports that Fidel Castro has thrown the successful skyjackers into Cuban jails, appeared to be taking effect, however: there were no new skyjackings last week...
...blacks (15%); indeed, the Cubans' energies helped to transform Miami from a stagnating tourist town into a vibrant trade and financial center. And the Cuban advance guard created a cosmopolitan atmosphere in which the new arrivals can feel culturally at home: in Miami's Little Havana, Spanish is the predominant language, and at almost every corner there is a stand selling the dark, strong café cubano...
...rate in Dade County rental houses and apartments is a mere 1%, and the county has received no federal public housing money in 14 years. Though Washington claims that 85% of the Cuban boat people have been placed with sponsors, many are stacked in crowded matchbox dwellings in Little Havana with distant relatives who have agreed reluctantly to let them stay for a while. Some 750 Cubans live in Campamento del Rio (River Camp), a group of Army squad tents nestled under the elevated highway Interstate 95. People wash at spigots; laundry flutters from wire fences; young, bare-chested...
...seems a throwback to the air piracy of the late 1960s, when skyjackings steered dozens of planes to Cuba. The motive now, as it often was then, is homesickness. Last week six commercial U.S. airliners were hijacked and forced to fly to Havana, apparently by Cuban refugees who had come to the U.S. on the recent Freedom Flotilla. First, a Key Westbound Air Florida 737 with 33 people aboard was commandeered by a Spanish-speaking man wielding a "bomb" that turned out to be a box containing a bar of soap. Next, another Air Florida 737, headed from Key West...