Word: costa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usual. He and six of the boys, ages between 56 and 77, gathered in the Sun Valley Village trailer park in Pacheco, Calif., for a little game of poker. The stakes never vary: nickels and dimes, with winners going home as much as $7 richer. Suddenly, two Contra Costa County sheriffs deputies burst into the room. "Freeze! You're under arrest!" they yelled at the gamblers. A tad hard of hearing, one of the boys shouted back, "Whaddid ya say? Whaddid ya say?" But Bob Tebo, 56, heard only too well: "It scared the hell...
...month one with an annual interest rate of 25%. The failure of the last mortgage triggered a foreclosure on the house, one of hundreds in California in recent months. The rate of delinquent home payments has also jumped in the past two months in the state. In Contra Costa County near San Francisco, the number of delinquent payment notices was 200 a month last year; now it is nearly 400 monthly...
...policy of aiding the Salvadoran armed forces in their drive against the country's leftist guerrillas continued to provoke resistance last week. In San Salvador unidentified gunmen sprayed the U.S. embassy with automatic rifle fire. In San José, Costa Rica, a bomb damaged a van carrying U.S. Marine guards to the embassy, wounding three Marines and two civilians. A leftist group claimed credit for the bombing and called for a "halt to the Yankee intervention in El Salvador. "In the Salvadoran countryside, meanwhile, government forces continued their counterinsurgency operations on several fronts. Last week TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich...
...West Germany runway models, native and foreign, do not often pose in the studios, and it is they who, as mannequins traditionally are supposed to do, spend their nights in discos and their long weekends at Gstaad or the Costa Smeralda. The American photo models, at least in a widely sworn-to stereotype, are highly professional and somewhat alarming creatures who arrive punctually, work hard and project such Teutonic brown qualities as hair in youth, curlers vivacity, and radiance and good humor. They fit in well with the businesslike atmosphere of the German studios. Off-camera, they baffle local playboys...
Diplomatic analysts overestimate the extent of current Venezuelan and Costa Rican commitment to continue to support our current policy in El Salvador. They also tend to minimize the political costs of world reaction to follow any increased deployment of US military personnel or equipment in the area...