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...Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Originally focused narrowly on the bombings, which killed more than 200,000 Japanese, the exhibit will now cover Japan's aggression during World War II and factors that influenced the decision to drop the Bomb, including U.S. military leaders' belief that an invasion of the Japanese mainland would leave hundreds of thousands of dead on both sides...
Finding land on which to pitch tents for the balseros is no problem -- except to the 3,000 U.S. service members who will lose the company of their families and the use of recreational facilities. Tents, flown in from the U.S. mainland, are being set up on the base's softball and baseball diamonds, a soccer field, even the paltry sand-and-rock golf course; the beach where the soldiers and sailors swim will soon house the headquarters of a military- civilian task force that will oversee the camps. Military spouses and children are being flown out because of electric...
Since Castro cut all connections between the base and the rest of the island in 1964, Guantanamo is entirely dependent on its own resources and supplies flown in from mainland U.S. or floated by barge from the Florida Keys. Massive new shipments of water, desalinating and generating equipment may be needed. Plus food, of course. And people -- maybe 4,000 more U.S. troops to build, cook for and police the camps...
...asking to help take some refugees off its hands. (They had agreed earlier to take some Haitians, but the U.S. found it unnecessary to send any.) As loudly as the U.S. 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...
...week -- on Wednesday the U.S. Coast Guard picked up only 178, the lowest number since June 20, though that might have been because of rough seas. There are even the beginnings of a backflow: some escapees who were caught and interned have despaired of ever getting to the American mainland and have chosen to return to Haiti rather than continue living indefinitely in jammed quarters at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...