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...doling out grants up to $11,500 for hard- up families, it works marvels. But at the moment of crisis, the agency sometimes lacks even common sense. A relocation-assistance center for migrant workers, for instance, was first based at Miami airport, miles from the poor workers down in Homestead. FEMA's temporary relief centers along the roadways of south Dade are labeled simply DAC: nothing else, no clue to the befuddled homeowner that these are disaster assistance centers...
Twenty-five miles south, in what was Homestead, the Army began checking in the first of the 17,000 homeless persons who are expected to occupy five tent cities, possibly until Christmas and beyond. "No drinking, no drugs and no profanity," new arrivals were told. With area residents reluctant to leave their gutted homes, only a few hundred had taken up the Army's offer of shelter by week...
...citizens of South Florida and New Orleans should get such attention. No - sooner had HURRICANE ANDREW destroyed Homestead Air Force Base, south of Miami, than three Congressmen tried to grab its operations for their own districts. Robin Tallon of South Carolina urged the Air Force to "save money" by abandoning the Florida site and coming on up to Myrtle Beach, whose base is scheduled to close next spring. Meanwhile, Sam Gibbons of Tampa pitched McDill Air Force Base, and J. J. "Jake" Pickle of West Texas talked up the Lone Star State's Bergstrom Air Force Base...
...about the national average) of the Pittsburgh work force is unionized, the company's use of fill-ins -- as well as an outside security force dressed in military-style uniforms and combat boots -- struck the wrong chord in a city that's marking the centennial of the 1892 Homestead Strike, in which 10 steelworkers were shot by Pinkerton security guards at Andrew Carnegie's factory just outside town. Readers burned papers, and advertisers displayed signs proclaiming that they were not doing business with the newspaper company. Even Mayor Sophie Masloff canceled her subscriptions. After two days of fighting...
Farms down in steamy Homestead, southwest of Miami, provide lush purple mangoes, creamy-tasting red bananas, sweet sugar apples, globe-shaped canistels that taste like eggnog. On the edge of the Everglades, the husband- and-wife team of Marc and Kiki Ellenby are the only commercial producer of fresh litchi nuts in the U.S. "We're just beginning to use Florida's natural resources for cooking," says Susser. "The fun is that we're breaking new ground." The Caribbean, especially Cuban, influence is vital. Susser picks up recipes from his Haitian and Cuban kitchen help. A Haitian suggested poaching boniato...