Word: mariel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cubans who fled from Castro were middle class or even wealthy. Other Hispanics call them "the hads" (los tenia) because so many of their sentences supposedly begin "In Cuba, I had . . ." These Cubans in turn contrast themselves with others who fled in the 1980 boatlift from the port of Mariel, a minority of whom had been inmates of prisons or mental hospitals. The word Marielito, flung by one Cuban American at another, can be a fighting insult...
...years to negotiate, would have permitted up to 20,000 Cubans to leave for the U.S. each year. Cuba had also agreed to take back 2,746 criminals and mentally ill people who came to the U.S. during the mass exodus of 125,000 Cubans from the port of Mariel in 1980; a mere 201 such "excludables" had been returned before last week. In addition, the agreement was to allow some 3,000 of Cuba's political prisoners to emigrate to the U.S. One hour after Castro's suspension was announced, the first, and perhaps the last, group of eleven...
...tarmac. The convicts, handcuffed and clad in identical blue uniforms, were herded into the jet, which took off for the two- hour flight to Havana, Cuba. The 23 men were the first batch of Cubans to be sent back to the homeland they had fled in the Mariel boat lift of 1980. According to the Justice Department, all the deportees had committed serious crimes in Cuba or the U.S.: four of them were murderers, eight were robbers, three had engaged in drug dealing, and eight were guilty of assaults...
...beauty is a bronze complexion in February, tanning parlors are sprouting faster than dandelions in May. Though no precise figures are available, tanning salons are raking in an estimated $300 million a year. At one of the trendiest, Hollywood's Uvasun, such celebrities as Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart, Mariel Hemingway and even Mr. Tan himself, George Hamilton, spend upwards of $30 an hour to maintain their sunbaked looks. Less exclusive salons charge between $3 and $15 for half an hour in the synthetic sunlight. UVA Tan, located in an upscale Atlanta suburb, expanded two months ago from four tanning machines...
...character when the White House last week announced a deal to re-establish immigration arrangements, the first agreement between the U.S. and Cuba since 1977. Castro will take back as many as 2,746 criminals and mental patients he dispatched to the U.S. along with thousands of other Mariel boat people in 1980. In return, the U.S. will begin accepting once again an orderly stream of Cuban immigrants, as well as about 3,000 anti-Castroites, former political prisoners whose promised exit from Cuba has been held up since the disruptive influx from Mariel...