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...migration, that were suspended last December. But as for wide-ranging negotiations -- no way, responded Clinton; that would look like capitulation. Yet something had to be done with the balseros, or rafters, as Cubans dubbed them. So Secretary of Defense William Perry calmly assured his Administration colleagues that a tent city under construction at Guantanamo to house the first Cuban refugees could be rapidly expanded to hold many more...
...Most of my friends used to live in homes," says a woman who lives in a tent. "Now they're camping." This was outside Telluride, the too-precious- for-words old Colorado mining gem that perches way up there in the San Juan Range like a jay's nest in a ponderosa pine. The woman, Jill Mattioli, 28, used to have an apartment in town -- back when she could afford it. Now she lives off in the woods near others who service Telluride in manifold ways but whose purchasing power is so weak they sleep in their cars, in campers...
...arts resorts like Breckenridge, Colorado, to country- music Meccas like Branson, Missouri, America's playlands are producing a booming class of unfortunates: the hardworking homeless. To step off the main drag of a glistening little jewel like Telluride, then, is like stepping out the back flap of a circus tent: Lord, there's a caravansary of gypsies parked back here! The chief of Telluride's housing authority, Dave Johnson, quit in June, citing job stress. The problem, says Jim Davidson, editor of the Telluride Times-Journal, "brings instability and a surly work force. We can't expect nice worker attitudes...
...right side of the stage was the "HORDE Workshop." Set underneath a grove of pine trees there was, among other carnival-like attractions, a "rain tent," probably intended to provide patrons respite from the summer sun. Mother Nature had rendered that obsolete...
...travel there because of political turmoil, attached themselves to a mob of religious pilgrims and pressed on regardless. The journey was not entirely spiritual; an overcrowded campsite was fouled with human dung. This does not prevent Alexander from creating a beautiful scene. "I saw, on drawing back the tent flaps," she writes, "snowdrifts gleaming on the towering black peaks and, a long way beneath them, a wobbly line of light from the pilgrims' lanterns descending the far hills and inching across the plain." The ice cave at Amaranth lay ahead, offering Siva's boon, "a release from the fear...