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Birth of a Notion

Here's a new idea: Haitian babies born at the Guantanamo Naval Station should be considered U.S. citizens

By William Labbee
Aug 12, 1992

In most respects, James Eloissaint is like any five-month-old child. He squirms and bounces on his mother's knee, tugging at a tiny T-shirt, sucking on a finger, smiling and gurgling all the while. But unlike most toddlers in this country, James doesn't have a birth certificate. Born to Haitian-refugee parents...
Automatic Transgression

The penalty for selling an unregistered World War II Sten gun? In this case it might be six months of house arrest, three years of probation, and one $36,000 Turbo Z.

By William Labbee
Aug 5, 1992

Title 26 of the United States Code has proven to be a powerful weapon for federal agents combating the proliferation of machine guns, preferred tools of the drug-trafficking trade. The law makes it a crime to possess or sell unregistered machine guns and calls for penalties of up to ten...
Totally Rent Out of Shape

A tenant uprising at a South Beach apartment complex might be the opening salvo in a renters' revolution

By William Labbee
Jul 15, 1992

For most of the past decade, South Beach was anything but a Miami Vice pastel playground for the young and restless. From Alton Road to Collins Avenue, the hunched-over elderly lined the porches of dilapidated residential hotels and apartment buildings. Landlords allowed Art Deco edifices to decay with little regard...
Eating Disorder

Richard Peacock turned a historic Coconut Grove house into an "adventure" restaurant, predicting the place would be around for years. He just didn't say how many.

By William Labbee
Jun 24, 1992

When Richard Peacock proposed building Grove Calloway's restaurant on McFarlane Road in 1988, he labeled the existing historic Peacock House on the site of his envisioned eatery "an old dump" and "the armpit of the Grove." It was a termite-infested eyesore of no value to anyone, argued Peacock, a descendant...
The Ships Hit the Fan

Corri Barrs says there's something you should know about the garbage that's washing up on the shores of Matheson Hammock

By William Labbee
Jun 17, 1992

At least once a week for more than a year Corri Barrs has gone to the beach. Not just any beach, mind you, and not for the usual swimming and sun worship. Corri Barrs is into trash. More specifically, she's into trash that washes up along a 100-yard stretch of...

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