Word: condor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rugged, majestic Sierra Madre Occidental. A copter scarcely touches down before soldiers leap out, their Belgian FAL rifles at the ready. The troops belong to a 2,300-man special force drawn from the best units in the Mexican army. They are carrying out a mission, code-named "Operation Condor," that began last month. Their enemy is an empire where marijuana grows by the acre and the blood-red amapola poppy-the opium plant-flourishes...
...awful feeling that the number of Friday night activities does not bode well for Saturday since this looks like a dead weekend, but there are always movies and plays and all--the Women's Community Health Center is showing a film about sterilization abuse called "Blood of the Condor" at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center, followed by a speaker from--you got it--the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse. Donation...
Blood of the Condor (a benefit for the women's community health center) Friday...
Blood of the Condor (documentary on the forced sterilization of Bolivian Indian women); The Dispossessed, Friday and Saturday...
...Bishop might have resented his mother, who lived with the family and was described by some as domineering. Still others suspected that Bishop might have been a spy and that he and his family could be victims of a rub-out reminiscent of the film Three Days of the Condor. But no persuasive proof was offered to support this theory. In any case, the police let it be known that fingerprints had been found on the gasoline can next to the burial site, and at week's end they issued a warrant for Bishop's arrest...