Word: casas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amsterdam, a gunman carrying a can of gasoline burst into Casa Rosso, a gambling and sex club in the city's red-light district. As horrified guests watched at gunpoint, the man, a former employee, doused the floor and stairs with gasoline. He then shot his pistol into a fuel can, instantly setting the place ablaze. Patrons mobbed exits and jumped from upper-story windows as the fire consumed four 17th century row houses in the brothel and casino complex. The toll at week's end: 13 dead, 25 injured...
Club Casablanca (40 Brattle St.): From Mexico to North Africa, Casa B's is probably where Rick--that's Humphrey Bogart, for the uninitiated--would hang out if he came to Cambridge. Nowhere she will you lie back in a cushioned wicker chair, whiskey in hand, with a piano player tickling the ivories in the corner of the room. His name isn't Sam, but he'll play it again and again if you want...
...show up early. you'll meet President Bok who likes to take his breakfasts at this friendly Square institution reportedly he is still open to advice on South Africa investments Chi Chi's Mass Ave ) and Paco's Laco's JFK St.)will tickle your hot spot but Casa Mexico's a few doors up from hot spot Paco's offers the best burritos and enchiladas albeit at higher prices. The Iruna on JFK serves up sangria and other Spanish delicacies while sushi mongers can satisfy their gullets at Roka upstairs from Ta Chien on Eliot...
Clandestine jails are organized by zone, distributed among the different security organizations. In Managua, for example, military counterintelligence has a mechanics shop eight blocks south of the Casa del Obrero, a union headquarters. Behind the store are two cells against a wall. Each cell is less than a meter wide and a meter deep and two meters high. The prisoners inside were always handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded. They were usually put in these cells for softening up, or for depersonalization. Sometimes they were foreign spies: Hondurans, Guatemalans, sometimes intelligence agents from the United States. I recall two U.S. agents...
...south-of-the-border binge has been a bonanza for restaurateurs like Ramon Gallardo, 45, a-Mexican immigrant and ex-dishwasher who opened a St. Louis dining spot called Casa Gallardo just six years ago. The place quickly became so popular that General Mills purchased it in 1979 and immediately began building Casa Gallardo restaurants from Florida to Ohio. The chain (1981 sales: $20.4 million) now has 17 outlets and will soon open seven more. Gallardo, who was promoted from Casa Gallardo president to chairman last June, now drives a silver Mercedes and lives in a posh St. Louis suburb...