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...Coorg ceremony--named after the Indiantown where her family is from--held on August 28,that consisted primarily of a long reception line,during which the guests congratulated the couple,blessed them and gave them gifts. Indian weddingscan often last for several days, so the couple'sfive hour ceremony--long by Americanstandards--was considered short...
...into the skin, which is then firmly stroked with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with the remedy and apt to mistake its signs for battering. That possibility, as well as doctors' skepticism about the value of coin rubbing...
...their meager possessions in plastic garbage bags, boarded Greyhound buses, and then sat for 4½ hours while repairs were made to their chartered Boeing 737-the only hitch in the evacuation of Fort McCoy. By week's end nearly all 3,000 refugees were gone. Meanwhile, at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in Pennsylvania, about 2,500 Cubans were loading their belongings into cardboard cartons for a similar journey this week...
...anything, the basic problem of handling the Cuban refugees was getting worse. In Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., one of four camps where Cubans are held until sponsors can be found to give them homes, 1,000 troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division stood guard over 4,000 Cubans last week to prevent a repetition of the Aug. 5 riot in which 16 camp officials and 42 Cubans were injured, one fatally. In Fort McCoy, Wis., homosexual attacks and knife fights have broken out among the 5,300 Cubans housed in the camp; many are refugees under 18 who face...
...four refugee camps, where they began the dreary game of waiting as center officials slowly processed them. Of the 7,500 refugees now living at Eglin, 5,000 have been there since the center opened on May 3. Arkansas' Fort Chaffee remains filled with 18,800, Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., holds 15,000, and the just opened Camp McCoy near Sparta, Wis., has 172. "The boredom is overwhelming," complained Luis Martinez, an engineering technician who has been at Eglin for more than two weeks. "All you can do is worry, worry, worry...