Nation: Impatient for Freedom

Refugees on the rampage

It began innocently enough when a few Cubans lit a fire to make coffee. Military police moved in and doused the flames, telling the refugees that open fires were outlawed on the Army base at Fort Chaffee, Ark. A small incident, but last week it ignited the resentment that had been smoldering in some of the 19,000 Cuban refugees from Castro awaiting relocation in the U.S. A force of 500 Cubans marched out through the front gate before being rounded up by harassed soldiers and police. That night 200 Cubans...

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