Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disaffected keep coming in numbers sufficient to overflow Guantanamo, Clinton will have to look again at the options he has tried mightily to dodge. His major goal so far has been to avoid, at almost all costs, a replay of the Mariel boat lift. That 1980 exodus dumped 125,000 refugees in five months into Florida and from there to other Southern states unready to receive them. The fiasco badly hurt not only President Carter but also Bill Clinton, who believes he was defeated for re-election as Governor of Arkansas in part because Cuban refugees sent to Fort Chaffee...
...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...
While "deeply concerned" about a deluge of refugees, Administration officials rejected Castro's threat of a Mariel replay. Said a State Department spokesman: "The United States has stated repeatedly that we will not permit Fidel Castro to dictate our immigration policy...
...sportscasters, the commentators keep score, but points are awarded evenly to each side, because no one wants a runaway game where the fans leave the stands before half time. About the time a viewer might be tempted to switch to a shopping channel, the anchors would go to a replay of the ceremonious delivery of the mysterious brown envelope, which contains either a knife or a red herring. It's as riveting as the MacGuffin in a Hitchcock thriller...
...monarchy, Prince Charles' TV confession was a fiasco. It's hard to fathom how the embattled heir to the throne could replay 1992, the year his mother called her annus horribilis, but he has managed it. The tattle about his relationship with the married -- and Roman Catholic -- Camilla Parker Bowles had died down, but the scandal is back on the front page. Charles also showed a blithe disregard for his nation's constitution in revealing that he wants the coronation oath changed so he can be defender of all faiths, not just the Church of England -- breaking a 460-year...