Word: hialeah
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...riot," says Fullwood. "You get hurt taking other people's stuff. It ain't like they put it in the street and say 'Come and get it.' The only thing they tore up was the black area. Now I got to go way across to Hialeah to shop...
...gambling and booze and make a comeback in the ring? Will Dad's exwife, now a remarried society lady, try to regain custody of the son she once abandoned? Will Dad and Mom fall in love again? Will the son's pet horse win the race at Hialeah? The heart boggles...
...fled their Communist-dominated island home for the U.S. since Fidel Castro took power. Of these, 430,000 have settled in southern Florida's Dade County, where they were initially welcomed with sympathy and federal relocation grants. The Cubans have long since spread out from Little Havana. Neighboring Hialeah (pop. 133,000) is 65% Latin, and the Cubans have moved on to such well-tended suburbs as Coral Gables, Kendall and Westchester. They have prospered mightily, prompting Cuban Writer José Sanchez-Boudy to boast with only slight hyperbole: "We have been the most successful immigrants this country...
...rate of 1,000 a month. They are also registering to vote at the rate of 800 a month; at present about 100,000 of the 351,000 eligible latino voters are actually registered. As a result of this increasing political involvement, two latino city commissioners were elected in Hialeah last year, and a hefty slate of Hispanic candidates is being prepared for state elections. Says Florida state Democratic Chairman Alfredo Buran: "We've been viewed as outsiders with no interest in government. This is going to change...
...executives by the end of this month. Subsequent probes by city and county investigators have turned up dozens of other examples of questionable activities in the $92.5 million-a-year South Florida jobs program, which is jointly administered by officials from Dade and Monroe counties and the cities of Hialeah, Miami and Miami Beach, and financed by the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA...