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Beyond the near panic in Florida's large Cuban-American community, Carter's sudden crackdown on the flotilla chugging between Key West and Castro's designated embarkation port of Mariel produced other uncertainties. By seizing 113 boats by week's end and threatening boatowners with fines of up to $50,000 and prison terms of up to ten years, the Administration had effectively stopped the sailing of boats out of Key West. Yet some 1,500 American craft still lay in Mariel, capable of carrying an average of 45 refugees each-a potential capacity...
...student turmoil grows, he imposes an army crackdown...
...officials blame the influx on unusually tranquil seas that have eased the long journey, a crackdown against Haitians living illegally in the Bahamas, and rumors that the Carter Administration may be considering an amnesty for some illegal aliens in the U.S. Though it is sympathetic toward families trying to escape the economic hardships of the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, Washington insists that the Haitians cannot legally be allowed into the U.S. because, unlike Cubans, they do not qualify as "political" refugees. Deportation proceedings, however, have been held up pending the outcome of legal proceedings. Last week a class...
...company as both their empire and their self-justification. As long as the family controlled the company, their fortunes and their power grew. The book is subtitled The Rise and Fall of the du Ponts of Delaware-- and the fall comes only in the late 1950s with a government crackdown, anti-trust laws, and the removal of the family from active control of the corporation...
...Christmas spending, if controls last that long, because credit limits were set in sales-slow March. They also questioned how they would sort out major purchases, like refrigerators, which are exempted from the regulations, from less expensive credit-restricted items, like fancy leather goods. Economists estimate that the card crackdown would have a measurable, if minor, impact on inflation. Consumers, in any case, will be forced to think twice about spending their plastic money, and banks and retailers now have an excuse to drop some money-losing business...