Word: agua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine rack in the waiting room of Dr. Carolina Goldstein's dental surgery on Agua Caliente Boulevard in Tijuana is stuffed with copies of Good Housekeeping and other U.S. publications. THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING says a notice in English. Nearby, stacked pamphlets, also in English, extol the virtues of resin-bonded ceramic fillings. Soft music from a San Diego radio station fills the room. It could easily be an American dentist's office. Indeed, in some ways that is exactly what it is. Like many other dentists, doctors, opticians and pharmacists in Tijuana, Goldstein relies on Americans, several coming...
...weather will be warm, so be sure to drink enough water. Bebe mucho agua. Buvez beaucoup d'eau. There will be a service for Jewish runners at 8:30. If you're not used to having doughnuts before a race, don't eat the ones we've provided because your stomach might not accept them very well. In five minutes there will be an aerobics warm-up session...
Land leasing has been a necessity in other areas. In Palm Springs, Calif., where about half the land is owned by the Agua Caliente Indians, many home buyers lease their land. Large industrial concerns like Du Pont, Foremost-McKesson and Shell Oil have long rented the ground beneath their buildings to conserve capital for other purposes...
...town called Tombstone, lies the border city of Douglas in Arizona's sparsely populated Cochise County. Signs pointing to Mexico dot Main Street, and an estimated 10,000 of the 15,000 residents of Douglas are Mexican Americans. Most of them have relatives living across the border in Agua Prieta, or "AP," as the locals...
...Hanigan case began on a hot August morning in 1976, when three Mexicans set out from Agua Prieta to seek work in Arizona. The trio-Manuel Garcia, Bernabe Herrera and Eleazar Ruelas-slipped across the border and soon stopped to refill their water jug on land leased by the Hanigans. A man, later identified by the Mexicans as Thomas Hanigan, drove by in a pickup truck and yelled out, "Hey, wetbacks, where are you going? Are you going to steal or rob?" Hanigan allegedly forced the Mexicans into his truck at gunpoint and then summoned his father George...