Word: bays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then the participants flew to Mexico's northern Sonora state to visit a coalition of agricultural cooperatives. They spent that night in Monterrey, an industrial center, where they were guests at a dinner with local businessmen. The next day it was on to the steamy coast along the Bay of Campeche to tour the awesome La Cangrejera petrochemical complex at Coatzacoalcos. Says Houston Bureau Chief Sam Allis, who accompanied the Newstour: "I assumed nothing could touch the pure muscle of the refineries along the Houston Ship Channel, but the La Cangrejera complex dwarfs any single facility in Houston...
...always Jackie Presser's ambition to be president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, even though he had watched several bosses stumble trying to keep both the Government and the gangsters at bay. Two Teamsters' presidents, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, went to prison on federal charges of corruption. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. A third, Roy Williams, resigned the week before last in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his bribery-conspiracy conviction. "That chair isn't a throne," Presser once remarked. "It's an electric...
...munificence. Soviet aid to Hanoi last year totaled about $1 billion, with an additional $500 million lent by other East bloc countries. In turn, the Soviets have demanded and been granted the right to use the military bases at Danang and the American-built facility at Cam Ranh Bay. Soviet diplomats, military experts and technical advisers stationed in Viet Nam now total some 10,000, and the number appears to be rising steadily...
...goals in Viet Nam are not totally clear, its newly shaped strategic position worries neighbors and other countries. "Without Viet Nam, the Soviet navy has no naval base from Yemen to Vladivostok," says Philippe Richer, French Ambassador to Hanoi in 1975 and 1976. "With their ships in Cam Ranh Bay and their air force in Danang, the Soviets can patrol most of the South Pacific." One Vietnamese diplomat candidly admits that his country turned to the Soviets in the first place only because Hanoi considers the Chinese even less trustworthy. Says he: "We needed help, and the Soviets were...
Connecticut enacted a similar law last April, and the idea has gained momentum in the Bay State. Last year there were no lemon laws before the state legislature, and now there are 13 different proposals...