Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...anything, the basic problem of handling the Cuban refugees was getting worse. In Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., one of four camps where Cubans are held until sponsors can be found to give them homes, 1,000 troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division stood guard over 4,000 Cubans last week to prevent a repetition of the Aug. 5 riot in which 16 camp officials and 42 Cubans were injured, one fatally. In Fort McCoy, Wis., homosexual attacks and knife fights have broken out among the 5,300 Cubans housed in the camp; many are refugees under 18 who face...
...greatest problem is that the sheer numbers of new refugees have simply overwhelmed community facilities. Says Metro Bade County Commissioner William Oliver: "We're at the crisis level now." Examples...
...Western technology. The debts were supposed" to be paid by re-exporting finished goods, but production was hampered by mismanagement, and foreign markets were reduced by the Western recession of the mid-1970s. Spiraling bills for imported oil, 80% of which comes from the Soviet Union, presented yet another problem. Moscow's preferential price, though well below OPEC rates, has risen sharply since 1974. Poland must therefore divert more exports to the Soviet Union instead of selling them for hard Western currency. The result: a staggering foreign debt of more than $19 billion...
...rose rapidly through party ranks, in part because of his reputation for toughness. When student riots broke out in 1968, Gierek warned that those who opposed the regime would have their "bones broken." Nonetheless, he also gained a reputation as a pragmatist who would try to look at a problem and find a practical solution that he could fit into Communist ideology...
Shortages may be the most obvious problem, but Poland's economic malaise cuts much more deeply. When the trains do not run, or the electricity goes off, or a project remains unfinished, the response by workers is a shrug of the shoulders and the disclaimer, "To nie jest moja wina" (It isn't my fault...