Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, if Hollywood learned that the colonel syphoned a few of the Ayatollah's bucks and planned to abscond to Bolivia, it would make a movie. And North and Poindexter would become the new Redford and Newman...
Scenario 5: During a routine cinderblock inspection, the Quincy House superintendent discovers that four seniors have turned their common room into a synthesizing center for crack. An exhaustive search of the room uncovers chemical apparatus, 80 kilos of cocaine, three "I love Bolivia" t-shirts, and $1.8 million in krugerrands and traveller's checks. What should Harvard do to these four students...
...other side of the world, along the spine of the Andes in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, both the lower and middle classes have begun smoking coca paste, a potent and addictive form of cocaine that costs only pennies a cigarette. "These countries have never had a problem like this before," says Manuel Gallardo, chief of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they...
...alley and holds an odd contraption to his mouth. The voice-over cites statistics on the use of something called "crack," speaks of billions spent this year alone on illegal drugs, of the alarming rise of this, the terrifying appearance of that. Dissolve. Green fields in Colombia. Dissolve. Bolivia. John Belushi. Len Bias. Dissolve. Dissolve...
...firing of 7,000 miners and the proposed pit closings were part of a desperate government plan to rescue Bolivia's tin industry. Collapsing prices have plunged the country's 21 nationalized mines deep into the red. Paz Estenssoro wants to shut two of the mines and lease most of the rest to worker-run cooperatives. The moves could cost an additional 8,000 jobs...