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Angered by the death of a policeman in a refugee hijacking in early August, Castro threatened to open the ports and unleash the population. "Castro appeared on national television and said military police would no longer patrol the waterfront," explained Eugenia Ventacourt, 44, a former executive secretary from Havana. Like hundreds of others, she crept down to the coast to see whether police were still patrolling. Before dawn on Sunday she and 10 others slipped away from a beach east of Havana. They were spotted by a Cuban coastal patrol boat 28 miles from the island, far beyond the coastal...
...forces arrayed against this threat are minuscule. There are an estimated 7,200 state and federal wildlife agents, 200 of which are U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agents, sprinkled over approximately 750,000 sq. mi. of parks. At Yellowstone National Park, 60 full-time rangers patrol a tract larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Says chief ranger Dan Sholly: "For every poacher we catch, there are 30 to 50 incidents that we don't even see." Adds Grosz: "Some days I figure I have Custer's odds." He has only 24 agents to juggle law enforcement with other...
Well, it turns out everything didn't go exactly according to plan. Despite the chain-link fence surrounding the 840-acre site, despite the 550 state troopers, the metal detectors, the confiscation of drugs and alcohol and the roaming private security force with the Orwellian name "Peace Patrol," a bit of the anarchy of the original Woodstock crept into its successor 25 years later. Several hundred people crashed the gates. The transportation system broke down early on, stranding huge numbers of fans and making the roads impassable. The audience pitched tents all over the grounds, despite pleas from the stage...
Some people are still trying their best to patrol the borders of hip, keeping out the pretenders. No sooner was Evan Dando, lead singer of the Lemonheads, identified by MTV as the next sensitive stud-muffin than some anti-fans started Die Evan Dando, Die, an anti-fan magazine. "I have nothing against teen idols. It's just that he was so publicist-ejaculated," says publisher-editor (and most other titles) Jeff Fox. "He was being forced down the throats of the American public as hip, and I couldn't take it anymore...
...economic, diplomatic and psychological pressure. One means is to tighten further the embargo against Haiti. The Administration noted with pleasure that all commercial air service into and out of Haiti will end by August, when Air France will suspend its flights. Clinton signed an order for U.S. helicopters to patrol Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic, watching for gasoline shipments, which have been regularly smuggled across...