Word: mariel
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WILL THE LAST AMERICAN LEAVING SOUTH FLORIDA PLEASE BRING THE FLAG So reads a bumper sticker in Miami. It is one small sign of Floridians' growing anger about the 150,000 Cuban and Haitian refugees who have beached on their state's shores since the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Although the care of undocumented aliens from the Caribbean is a federal responsibility, the burden of supporting them has fallen mostly on Florida, and Governor Robert Graham has had enough of it. He is suing the Federal Government for failure to curtail immigration into South Florida. Says he: "The status...
Castillo, who was serving a 33-year prison sentence in Cuba for arson, is marking his first anniversary in the U.S. He is one of the 125,000 Cubans who clambered hopefully aboard a ragtag flotilla bound for the U.S. from the harbor of Mariel, 27 miles west of Havana. Most of them were ordinary seekers of liberty. But the Cuban government supplied some of the passengers, including inmates like Castillo, who were taken from prisons and asylums and ordered aboard for the 110-mile trip to Florida. Whatever brought them to the U.S., the Marielitos have one shocking discovery...
...Mariel Ferre Dumin Clemson...
...Cubans had a common destination: Fort Chaffee, Ark., where the Carter Administration has decided to consolidate some 10,000 refugees who arrived during the 159-day boatlift and have not yet been settled. The boatlift ended two weeks ago, when Cuban President Fidel Castro closed the port of Mariel. Altogether, 125,262 Cuban men, women and children fled to the U.S. during the boatlift. Most of them quickly began new lives with the help of relatives already in the U.S. and private sponsors. The remainder are chiefly young men with little English or job skills-and little prospect for leaving...
...Woody Allen she is "probably the most beautiful woman the world has yet seen." He might have added that Mariel Hemingway, 18, his Manhattan costar, is also a topflight athlete. Even before she began an arduous nine months of training for the part of an Olympics-bound track star in Personal Best, Heming way would spend four to five hours a day at her home in Ketchum, Idaho, swimming, skiing, jogging, riding horses, climbing mountains or tumbling on the family trampoline. To play a pentathlon competitor, she stretched her repertory to include the shot put, high jump, long jump...