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...Tuesday, the whale was again spotted off-shore, and its jaw was still intact. The carcass apparently drifted into Essex Bay late Tuesday night. The couple cut the jaw out before dawn on Wednesday...
...Sunday, Sept. 18, the order to launch the invasion went out from the Pentagon. An hour later, planes loaded with American paratroopers were in the air, heading south. Warships closed in on Haiti, and Navy SEALs stole toward shore. Then, almost two hours later, the invasion was abruptly canceled. U.S. troops were told they would go ashore Monday to "cooperate" with the Haitian soldiers they had been ready to kill the day before...
Take a drive out of Manhattan, first east, then south, and in about an hour you arrive at one of the most pleasing monuments to activist government to be found in America: Jones Beach, a magnificent ocean park built on a sandbar off the south shore of Long Island. Jones Beach opened 65 years ago, Governor Franklin Roosevelt of New York presiding. But the idea had erupted full blown from the mind of that public-works genius and master builder, Robert Moses. A few years earlier, arriving by boat on that desolate stretch of sand, he sketched on the back...
...three days the weather achieved what Clinton could not, stemming the tide of rafters. On the beach at Guanabo, east of Havana, Saturday night's forecast is for 15-ft. waves and more rain. The balseros along the shore use their time to work on their rafts, dream, complain. Jorge Luis, 36, introduces his raft's crew. "Just because we're discontented, we're considered antisocial," he says. "But in fact we're all professionals. Cuba is like a prison these days. You work one month to eat one day. You . . . " And then he pauses and smiles, surveying one raft...
...managing the problem "in an orderly way and without disruption." But the federal government may be poised to reverse its 30-year-old Cuban policy: instead of allowing immigrants to stay in the U.S., they may be intercepted or turned back. Short of that, sources tell TIME, Operation Distant Shore would have Cuban refugees deposited at a Florida Air Force base, then flown to one of 10 Defense Department sites around the country...