Word: wave
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...election as Governor of Arkansas in part because Cuban refugees sent to Fort Chaffee rioted, and dozens of people were injured. Even after reclaiming the statehouse in 1982 and going on to the presidency, he remembers Mariel all too well. In discussions of what to do with the new wave of refugees, says a senior Administration official, "the fundamental issue" in the President's mind "was that there was not to be a repetition of the Mariel boat lift, that we were not going to tolerate that happening again...
...residents of Miami, it sharpened a passionate debate over Washington's response to the wave of U.S.-bound refugees. Long a solid bastion of conservative influence, the more than 1 million Cuban Americans in South Florida are torn over the wisdom of denying entry to the rafters, over President Clinton's refusal to negotiate with Castro, over the best approach to pry the Cuban leader from power...
COVER: Fighting a Human Wave...
...Jamaica meeting, the four CARICOM countries providing 266 troops to a Haiti operation indicated they would be part of the "first phase" of an invasion. But today, TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson reports, Defense officials said the Carribeans might be in "the first phase," but not in the "first wave," which is when the combat would actually take place. That initial assault would be left to U.S. soldiers...
When 350 grams of plutonium, the world's most toxic substance, shows up in a suitcase at the Munich airport, the imagination rushes to sci-fi scenarios. But the threat is real. Is this deadly material one more indication of nuclear proliferation? The basis for the next wave of terrorism...