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...Pentagon is poised to do what a hurricane could not: permanently shut down HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE in Florida. In a report to be made public March 15, the Defense Department intends to recommend to Congress that Homestead Air Force Base be closed. Across the country, other communities await word on the fate of their military bases, but this closure will be a particularly bitter one. After Hurricane Andrew nearly destroyed the base last August, President Bush pledged that "we will rebuild Homestead Air Force Base." In the current budget-crunching climate, it seems unlikely that promise will be kept...
...destruction and few hotels in the disaster zone, 5,000 to 10,000 itinerant workers and locals now live in these makeshift tent cities, according to estimates by Dade County officials. Mike Anelli, a 28-year-old carpenter from New Jersey who has set up camp near the destroyed Homestead Air Force Base, says he wakes nightly to the sound of gunfire. "It's like a Mad Max movie after a nuclear war, what with the fires at night, the rusted heaps of cars and all the fighting here," he says...
Like Clinton, Reno is an Ivy League law graduate (Harvard '63) with a down- home background. When she was a girl her parents, both reporters, moved the family to a homestead near the Everglades. Her mother was a crusty good ole gal known for wrestling alligators and building much of the log-and-stone house where Reno still lives...
...hear the prairie spaces and the melancholy of divided lives that were Cather's true territory in Maniacs songs like Stockton Gala Days and Gold Rush Brides. "Who were the homestead wives?" the latter asks. "The land was free, yet it cost their lives . . . In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like...
Bush said he was committed to rebuilding Homestead Air Force Base, the one struck by Hurricane Andrew, even though the base, which would cost hundreds of millions to recreate, only narrowly escaped the list of bases to be closed last year...