Word: floridians
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...rising tide of Cuban refugees has prompted Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles to declare an "immigration state of emergency," mobilizing the National Guard and state agencies. But Chiles' subsequent plea for federal action and financial assistance got a cool reception in Washington, where Attorney General Janet Reno -- a Floridian herself -- said the Administration was 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...
...just one vote, but I can assure you that I will not be the only south Floridian casting his ballot for Leonard Miller's Overseer elections. In fact, I'll bet Ms. Carrier would vote for Leonard Miller too--if she had just researched her story a little better. David A. Aronberg...
Surely there are only a handful of people in the U.S. who have not heard about or witnessed on television the suffering of Kimberly Bergalis -- the 23- year-old Floridian who contracted AIDS from her dentist. Her anguished letters and poignant testimony before Congress have sparked a nationwide campaign, endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to test health- care workers for HIV and inform their patients if they are infected...
...ugly, it's awful, it's appalling," says Sentinel columnist Morris. "You live here every day as a Floridian with a tremendous sense of loss." The former mayor of Orlando, Carl Langford, chose to retire somewhere else. "I spent 30 years of my life trying to get people to move down there, and then they all did," he says from his new home in Maggie Valley...
...laws that allow child-abuse charges to be pressed against any woman who gives birth to a child with illegal drugs in his bloodstream. In some cities local prosecutors have charged such mothers with a felony: delivering illegal drugs to a minor. The means of delivery: the umbilical cord. Floridian Jennifer Johnson, one of the first women convicted in such a case, was sentenced to mandatory drug treatment and 15 years of probation...