Word: locka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold. They became philanthropists, giving away as much as $1 million in a few months, apparently to buy good will. Turki gave $300,000 to the University of Miami School of Medicine. Mohammad, among his other donations, doled out $50,000 to Washington and $30,000 to Opa-Locka, Fla. (pop. 14,600). At least one offer was refused: when Tarek volunteered to pay for a new $161 million Miami stadium, city officials said it was an attempt to undermine local support for Israel...
Because of its short (1¾-in.) barrel the model RG 14 revolver that Hinckley used cannot be sold legally in the Miami area. The one that Hinckley bought, serial number L731332, was shipped by Southern Gun distributors of nearby Opa-Locka, Fla., directly to Rocky's Pawn Shop on Elm Street in Dallas. This cluttered emporium, only a quarter of a mile from the site where President John Kennedy was shot 17 years ago, has a sticker on the door that reads GUNS DON'T CAUSE CRIME ANY MORE THAN FLIES CAUSE GARBAGE. In the window...
...twisting line looked endless. Women fainted, even screamed in hysteria, as the hot sun and high humidity baked the seedy, aging airbase at Opa-Locka, on the outskirts of Miami. Nevertheless, the line kept growing. Finally, it stretched to contain some 10,000 people, all waiting to get a simple but cherished piece of paper. They called it a planilla (little plan), a Government form on which they could list the relatives in Cuba with whom they hoped to be reunited...
...exiles and allow them to board American passenger vessels and chartered airliners for safer passage across the straits. First, the U.S. had to know just which of the estimated 250,000 Cubans who have applied for exit visas actually have close kin in America. The crush at Opa-Locka was to place names on that vital list...
...boats out of Key West. Yet some 1,500 American craft still lay in Mariel, capable of carrying an average of 45 refugees each-a potential capacity of 67,500, which is even more than the roughly 50,000 refugees already being processed at such centers at Opa-Locka, Florida's Eglin Air Force Base and Fort Chaffee in Arkansas...