Word: azul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side of the wire-mesh fence, this one corroded by the sea air, sanitation workers are emptying trash cans set about the neatly cut lawns of a small park. On the Mexican side of the fence an eroded gully is filled with garbage. What was once the Playa Azul restaurant is drunkenly toppling sideways, its concrete supports undermined...
...road from Managua to the town of Tierra Azul has been an occasional target for antigovernment rebels. So when President Daniel Ortega Saavedra recently made the two-hour trip, he took along plenty of security. A fleet of more than a dozen sturdy vans accompanied the President's off-white Toyota, while an armed, Soviet-made helicopter provided surveillance from the air. When Ortega, 40, reached his destination, a makeshift plaza, he quickly took a seat behind a long table. "Face the People," a folksy forum that brings ordinary Nicaraguans into contact with officials of the Marxist-oriented Sandinista government...
...Guerrero, some 200 miles southwest of Mexico City. Fortunately, the affected states are sparsely populated, and their rocky underpinnings provided some resistance to the tremors. Still, at least 150 people were reported killed in Jalisco and 30 in Michoacan, where two hotels were leveled at the resort of Playa Azul. The toll along the coast, too, seemed certain to rise...
...clearing near the remote Rio Azul deep in the jungles of northern Guatemala, workmen were methodically chipping away at a boulder-filled shaft. As the narrow passage dropped abruptly under a rocky outcropping, Archaeologist Grant Hall suddenly spotted a streak of dark...
...trail that led to the tomb began in 1962 when an employee of the Sun Oil Co. discovered Mayan ruins near Rio Azul, five hours by land from the nearest town. The oil firm passed along the information to Professor Richard E.W. Adams, a Mayan archaeologist now at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Lacking funds, Adams could not explore the region until this year. In the meantime bands of looters had dug into the tombs of the 500-acre area, carrying off jewelry, pottery and carvings. Once at the Guatemalan site, Adams turned his attention to a spot...