Word: panama
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...exiles in Florida and who are willing to drop by the U.S. Interests Section office in Havana to apply for emigration. The big losers are the 25,000 Cubans who risked their lives at sea only to wind up in tents at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station or in Panama. They cannot apply unless they return to Havana...
...into the Straits of Florida. But a drop-off during the final weekend in August was caused merely by foul weather; clearing skies and lower waves tempted so many rafters into the water last week that U.S. vessels were again picking up more than 2,000 a day. Though Panama pledged to take some refugees off Washington's hands (temporarily, at U.S. expense) and some other nations might help out too, the day was clearly visible when the rafters would overflow all the available detention sites -- and then what...
...serve as an invasion backup force--arrived in Puerto Rico for two weeks of training with hundreds of U.S. Army Special Forces troops. The 17 countries, some announced previously, are: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahama Islands, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Dominica, Guyana, Israel, Jamaica, The Netherlands, Panama, St. Vincent, Trinidad and the United Kingdom...
...resume talks Wednesday morning. In Madrid, Cuba's Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina denied reports that Cuba would only be satisfied with a whopping 100,000 immigration ceiling. Meanwhile, 100 Cuban refugees in the Guantanamo Naval base volunteered to be moved out of the camp and put aboard planes for Panama, which has agreed to accept several thousand Cubans...
...equally possible that the refugee tide will rise again when the seas subside, until it eventually overwhelms any facilities that can be built in Guantanamo, or in Panama and the 11 other Caribbean, Central and South American countries that the U.S. is 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...