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...Afro-Am faces a watershed year. The bristling skepticism about the Afro-Am Department on campus is rooted in a history of tension and controversy, and it will be a while before officials can dispel doubts about the future. And no matter what, all eyes will focus on the placid figure of Nathan Huggins, who has just sat down in the hottest of hot seats...
Crime. In the first six months of 1980, crimes of all kinds in Dade County rose more than 20% over the previous year, compared with a statewide increase in crime of less than 15%. In normally placid Miami Beach, rapes, homicides, robberies and burglaries have risen almost...
...winds and 20-ft. waves. It wiped out most of the Caribbean banana crop, demolished thousands of homes and killed more than 100 people before its final landfall in Texas. Said Noel Risnychok, a meteorologist at Miami's National Hurricane Center, as the winds scythed through the normally placid Caribbean: "Allen has the potential to be the most devastating storm of the century...
Miller packs a good dose of administrative experience. She helped organize the 1979 National Sports Festival at Colorado Springs and the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. She also served on the Curriculum Development Committee under the auspices of the U.S. Olympic Committee, which developed athletic programs for school children...
...local organizers of the 1984 Los Angeles Games submitted an upbeat report on their preparations and promised to pay the estimated tab of $347 million without U.S. Government aid. They could not have been too heartened, however, by a report from officials of this year's Lake Placid Winter Games, who said that they still have a debt of almost $8 million...