Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many will not be deported after that. Any detainee may apply for a visa to a country other than Cuba or the U.S. All were granted amnesty for damaging property during the rioting, which virtually gutted both institutions. Those detainees who had finished sentences for various offenses, some as minor as possessing marijuana, were promised their release by next June 30 at the latest. Any such deadline was a vast improvement over the indefinite confinement that had been inflicted on the Cubans...
Some polls indicate that each of the three major candidates has a solid core of 20% support, while 10% could go to minor candidates and about 30% remain undecided. Given the size of the field and the fact that there will be no runoff, the winner may not need much more than 30% to 35% of the ballot...
...book's biggest failings is the incidental coverage given to the more interesting minor candidates. More should have been written about the candidacy of Melvin H. King, whose campaign invited parallels with the presidential effort of his close associate, Jesse Jackson. Only a single paragraph is devoted to one of the campaign's unsolved puzzles, why King devoted what remained of his predominantly Black districts of Boston...
Joslin had one of those opportinities as she stormed straight out of the penalty box after serving a tripping minor and skated circles around the Harvard offensive zone to get a shot on Rendell...
Then with 13 seconds left in regulation, Brown's Whitney Robbins drew a tripping minor which carried into overtime...