Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proclaims that it will never let any of those interned in Guantanamo enter the American mainland, many Cubans preparing to flee, as well as those already in Gitmo, refuse to believe it. Others might even prefer camp life with three meals a day in Guantanamo to hunger in Cuba...
...talk to Castro. Trade and investment that % might relieve Cuba's economic despair are the only ways to reduce the refugee flow permanently, even if Castro stays in power. His days of encouraging red revolution throughout the hemisphere are long since over; continuing to isolate Cuba only promotes hunger, desperation and floods of refugees that are not in anyone's interest -- including the interest of a U.S. now driven to violate its cherished principles of offering asylum to the oppressed...
...French who got him, because they never gave up. While other intelligence agencies had long since ceased their manhunts for Carlos, the French hunger to bring him to justice had gnawed quietly since 1975, when he murdered two French agents. "We practically never lost track of Carlos," French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua said last week. "It was always a question of cooperation...
Some in Cuba, however, doubted the policy change would be any more of a deterrent than the sharks, the hunger, the stormy seas that refugees were already braving. In the Havana suburb of Miramar, the news that boat people would be detained did not deter a young Cuban who was hurrying to finish his raft. "I'll take my chances," he said. "They won't send us back...
...tradition that petered out in the 1950s, according to religious historian Vinson Synan of Virginia's Regent University. Why has it resurfaced in such an unlikely place? "It's a kind of emotional release for a lot of people," maintains Synan. "It shows there's a spiritual and emotional hunger that's not being met in mainline churches...