Word: catalina
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...gift from former Mexican President Jose Lopez-Portillo, and during the just ended Reagan vacation, the First Rider and his mount were out daily. Nancy is partial to a quarter horse named No Strings. The stable sextet is rounded out by Gwalianko, a retired Arabian; two younger Arabians, Catalina and El Saraff; and Dormita, another quarter horse. As for the unnamed ducklings, they were a recent purchase by Caretakers Trisler and Barnett. (Somebody hold those fellows back.) The rabbits started showing up intermittently this summer, prompting the First Lady to feed them, and prompting them to show...
Basically, what you've got here storywise is a young man, played by Nelson, who's been away from his sleepy Florida hometown for a couple of years ("riding a burro through the Grand Canyon, hang-gliding off the Catalina Coast," you know, just some regular, low-key stuff to pass the time) only to come back to find out that his father, formerly mayor and general head honcho, has been killed in the interim. The circumstances of the late mayor's death are, of course, mysterious, so Billy turns amateur detective/one-man vigilante squad in order to find...
...finding a ship laden with the spoils of Peru that went down en route to the Caribbean in 1820. Years of research, to the exclusion of his schoolwork and to his father's growing annoyance, yield the final fragment of the puzzle. Mark knows he must go to Santa Catalina, a small out island in the Bahamas, where he will surely strike it rich...
...series of negotiations with Che. The Commandante is a sardonic figure who sometimes talks like William F. Buckley in fatigues and beret: "Disappointing . . . is a distinctively English, meiotic expression." Wherever Oakes settles in, a pair of alluring hazel eyes cannot be far away. This time they are blinked by Catalina Urrutia, a Cuban translator, moralist and flirt. After the requisite tango, the CIA man and the beautiful bilinguist end up in the percales. Heavy breathing leads to weighty revelations, and the smitten Catalina shows Blackford her ultimate secret: four medium-range Soviet ballistic missiles hidden in the hinterland...
...late afternoon at Canyon Ranch, "America's first total vacation/fitness resort." The sun slants across the roofs of the patio homes strung out across the desert, tinting the Santa Catalina Mountains, lengthening the shadows of the giant saguaro cacti...