Word: bleakness
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...often, the news from black America seems to be all bad: crime, broken families, failing schools, abject hopelessness. Yet amid the bleak circumstances that envelop so much of the African-American community, a singularly heartening piece of good news has been overlooked. Black artists are now embarked on one of the most astonishing outbursts of creativity in the nation's history. Never before -- not even during the legendary great Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s or the bristling Black Arts Movement of the '60s -- have black artists produced so much first-rate writing, music, painting and dance. For them...
...Pentagon continues to worry that G.I.s will be forced into the gap as Haitians fight one another. An unreleased army report paints a bleak picture of the future, calling the occupation a "prescription for disaster." Author Donald Schulz, a Caribbean expert at the Army War College, writes, "We can train and otherwise try to professionalize the Haitian military and police, but as long as the dominant culture places a premium on authoritarianism, dishonesty and the use of force, the new military and police will eventually slip back into the patterns...
...often declined to conduct even routine operations. That forced "the U.S. to choose between U.S. mission creep and U.N. mission failure." In Haiti the U.S. military will be watching President Clinton's every move and hoping he -- and the nation's troops -- doesn't end up with such a bleak choice...
...last week, too, the Clinton Administration's initial response to the renewed flood of refugees that Castro had let loose was heading toward a dead end. The White House had hoped its decision to consign the fugitives indefinitely to the bleak tent cities at Guantanamo would discourage the balseros from pushing off into the Straits of Florida. But a drop-off during the final weekend in August was caused merely by foul weather; clearing skies and lower waves tempted so many rafters into the water last week that U.S. vessels were again picking up more than...
...tougher problem will be to keep the Cubans occupied. The camps are bleak, though not squalid: many of the tents, housing 20 people each, have no floors, but contain comfortable cots with clean sheets; they are served by rows of portable toilets and curtainless outdoor showers. The yards, though, are sweltering, dusty and bare, and ringed by concertina wire. Humanitarian organizations and community-relations specialists from the Justice Department intend to set up church services, school classes, recreation programs. But for now there are no radios or TV sets, no music, no toys for the children, nothing to do except...