Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Galveston, Texas...
...huddled masses yearning to breathe free"-can no longer afford such generosity. Those huddled masses, it is feared, are robbing native Americans of jobs, straining community services and provoking new excesses of bigotry and xenophobia across the U.S. In Texas, for instance, Vietnamese refugees operating shrimp boats in Galveston Bay have stirred resentment among local fishermen and received threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Three of the refugees' boats have caught fire; though arson is suspected, no arrests have been made...
...Rape in Galveston. Marsha Walker, 30, asked a woman friend to stay with her while her husband, a doctor, was out of town. She heard her two dogs barking at 2:30 a.m. outside the Walkers' second-story garage apartment in a historic section of Galveston, Texas. She was not alarmed; there were three locks on the front door, there was no back door, and the apartment was 18 ft. above ground level. But as she went to check an open window, a bare-chested black man wearing an Arab-style kaffiyeh over his head pressed a knife...
...Stephen Perry's ranch near Galveston, Texas, a black cloud of insects settles on a herd of grazing cattle. The cows frantically swish their tails, trying ineffectively to brush off the bugs. One by one the cows drop dead-40 in all. Scientists at Texas A. & M. veterinary laboratories determine that as much as 5 gal. of blood has been sucked from some of the animals, more than half of a cow's normal blood supply...
Warned that Allen was nearing, Texans from Brownsville to Galveston frantically boarded up their homes and shops and 200,000 people fled coastal areas. Hardware stores sold out of batteries, candles, masking tape and flashlights. Canned goods and bottled water disappeared from grocery shelves. Hotels inland were booked to capacity...