Word: tamiami
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of those "folks" are flocking to the Tamiami Range and Gun Shop, where Steve Tomlin, 29, teaches a $25 course on how to protect yourself with a gun. Since instruction began last May, more than 500 customers, mostly women, have taken the three-hour course. "I am here to teach you how to kill," says Tomlin to his students. For the first two hours, Tomlin lectures on state firearms laws and how to shoot intruders. Among his tips: use a .38-caliber pistol ("It's the best for getting the job done"); assume all burglars are armed...
...South Florida, more than a dozen smaller shelters were opened at sites ranging from two former Nike missile bases to the inside corridors of Miami's Orange Bowl. The largest processing center was at Tamiami Park, on the outskirts of Miami, where 1,500 refugees a day plodded through a seven-step process to be cleared for release to join relatives who had fled Cuba years ago. All the while, more kept landing at Key West, to be bused from dockside to Key West Naval Air Station. There up to 5,000 waited, both inside and on surrounding concrete...
...Cuban Patriotic Junta, a coalition of exile groups, began handing out $40 in cash to each newcomer. Miami-area Cuban Americans donated an astonishing 40 tons of clothing (about 30% of the Miami area's population is Cuban). Beyond that, boasted Silvia Unzueta, a relief coordinator at Tamiami Park, "We have enough Pampers for every child in the world...
Despite the increasingly skillful planning, confusion has persisted. At Tamiami Park, federal officials for several days doled out up to $143 in cash to each refugee without realizing that a change in U.S. immigration laws effective on April 1 had made such payments illegal until after each exile formally seeks and is granted refugee status...
...have so many thousands of Cubans fled their native land as soon as they got the opportunity? As they waited in line at Tamiami the refugees talked about their reasons for leaving. Most described a combination of factors: the island's spreading poverty, made worse in the past year by tobacco-and sugar-crop failures; outright political repression; a gray and stultifying atmosphere...