Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President is not guilty of posturing about the Nicaraguan threat. He truly believes. To him, Nicaragua's Ortega, in his Castro-style fatigues, is not merely a Third World revolutionary who delights in tweaking Uncle Sam, but an agent of the Kremlin, bent on spreading Communism through the hemisphere. When the question of what to do about the Sandinistas comes up at National Security Council meetings, Reagan assumes what one aide calls his "Churchillian mode." The normally amiable and relaxed President sits up straight in his chair; his eyes flash, his lips tighten, and his hands ball up into fists...
Rourke, who after the ignominy of Michael Cimino's 1985 The Year of the Dragon has now played the two most offensive male leads in recent memory (get this man a new agent), is so empty that he cannot wipe off the stupid smile he has been holding since Diner. He is, in sum, no more than another accessory to a life style that is all glitz and no substance, all money and no meaning--he is, of course, an arbitrageur who lives in an apartment packed with high-tech goodies. We get a hint of his life when Basinger...
...agents have been hamstrung in their efforts to catch smuggling kingpins south of the border because many Mexican government officials are on the traffickers' payroll. When smugglers tortured and murdered DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar near Guadalajara last March, Mexican investigators seemed to be looking the other way. But honest members of Mexico's government are just as upset as Americans about the violence bred by smuggling. In a massacre last November, an army of 50 marijuana traffickers equipped with automatic weapons shot and killed 17 Mexican police officers and seven guides...
Frustrated U.S. drug busters may have decided to go outside diplomatic channels to apprehend one reputed marijuana smuggler, Rene Martin Verdugo, who is suspected of being involved in the DEA agent's killing. Verdugo, widely known as La Rana (the Frog), was walking the streets of tiny San Felipe, Mexico, on Jan. 24 when six masked men pounced on him and whisked him into an unmarked car. They drove their blindfolded captive north to an obscure stretch of the Mexican border near Calexico, Calif., where they handed him through a hole in the fence to U.S. marshals...
...estate taxes are too high. As to the weather, Hibbing natives need only gauge the speed with which their nostrils freeze to calculate that the temperature is 19 degrees below zero. There is snow on the ground but nothing too serious. "Just walk where they've plowed," says Travel Agent Sue Klobuchar, "and it'll only be up to your ankles." It is good weather for ice fishing or Las Vegas; take your pick...