Word: mariel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eerie replay of the events that led up to the 1980 Mariel boatlift, when 125,000 disaffected Cubans flooded the U.S. Then, Castro had responded to Jimmy Carter's blanket offer of asylum by opening the port of Mariel for any boat that wanted to leave. And last week Castro was again quick to play his trump card. He toured the scene of the rioting in a jeep and later appeared on Cuban TV to accuse the U.S. of provoking the incident. "I do not want to say there will be another Mariel," he said. "But either they take serious...
...rescue would-be Cuban emigres at sea should Fidel Castro's threatened mass boat lift become a reality. But State Department officials said they're reassured by signs that Florida's Cuban exile community won't rush to pick up fleeing boats, as they did during the 1980 Mariel exodus. This time, the exiles say, helping the dissidents leave would ease the pressure on Castro to reform his system...
...Clinton Administration says Fidel Castro's weekend threat to loose another Mariel-style boatlift on the U.S. is hollow. The U.S. Coast Guard may not be so convinced: Guard vessels sighted three more boats leaving Cuba today after picking up 230 frightened Cuban refugees over the weekend. The recent exodus was spurred by unrest in Havana Friday. TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth says Castro, frustrated by tension during one of the Cuban economy's worst months, may let the malcontents go. In Miami, she adds, Cuban exiles went on the radio to urge their island brethren to stay...
...Pigs invasion, have rescued a total of 1,286 men, women and children; the oldest was 77, the youngest a five-day-old infant. Last year, as economic conditions worsened in Cuba, the number of rafters rose to 3,656 -- the highest since the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Often the rafts are empty: by some estimates, 1 in 4 balseros die -- and the rescuers themselves are not without risk. Three Brothers have crashed; all lived, though one is paralyzed. Cuban MiG jets sometimes buzz them. "You have to be a bit adventurous and nutty to do it," says pilot Carlos Costa...
...trappings of a media circus. Sissy Spacek showed up at a Beverly Hills, California, press conference urging health-conscious Americans to "start screaming at Congress and the White House." Mariel Hemingway spoke her mind to the New York Times on the issue of pill dosages and potency. Whoopi Goldberg, Randy Travis, Laura Dern and friends sent a videotape to Washington that included a shot of Mel Gibson being dragged from his home in handcuffs, saying "Gee guys, they were only vitamins!" A BATTLE ROYAL JELLY, proclaimed one headline writer. THE FDA'S WAR OF THE ROSE HIPS, wrote another...