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...sleepless nights. "These people have been rained on, they're hungry and they're thirsty. In terms of people without basic survival things, I've never seen anything like it in my life. But we're really trying, really we are." Ten days after Andrew struck, the army's tent cities finally opened and relief supplies were so plentiful that residents became choosy, disdaining cans of lentils and demanding Tide over Cheer. By then it was safe to launch the debate about what needs to change so that next time, the help is there as soon as the storm...
...what Dade County officials call the war zone, the army had clearly won new allies -- unlike the haggard representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Soldiers bivouacked on the ground, sharing prepackaged MRES (meals ready to eat) and carrying groceries for tired refugees. Day and night, they put up tents, folded linens and stuffed welcome packages of toiletries for tent cities that will eventually house 17,000 of the county's 250,000 homeless. They also helped channel the extraordinary outpouring of supplies sent south by churches, charities and countless concerned citizens...
...without declaring martial law, even the military cannot impose its will on a civilian area. Unlike Desert Storm, there is no unified command, no General Norman Schwarzkopf. The Army, for instance, promised to have tent cities for 20,000 up and running by the first weekend after Andrew. But for the next week military and local jurisdictions quarreled over sites, facilities, building codes and, in the case of Florida City -- a city virtually wiped out by the hurricane -- a federal demand to kick in 10% of the cost...
Anyway, the motif of family values kept recurring along the Ik-Idaho Road. The Republicans conjured it up and turned it to powerful political effect. Their show in Houston was gaudy and complex -- a hellfire tent meeting dissolving to a '50s television sitcom with flags and confetti and sometimes tinny modulations...
...Houston were pummeling moderates who had sought to soften the party's rigid pro-life platform position. The pro-choice faction had been led to believe that they would get at least a token concession, a sign the party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business regulation. Donald Devine, one of the many right-wing...