Word: dapena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to locate the dead: as soon as the rains stopped, the Puerto Rican sun quickly baked the gooey clay rock-hard. By week's end only 38 bodies had been recovered. But Ponce Mayor Jose Dapena predicted that the death toll could eventually rise to 500. That would rank not only as Puerto Rico's worst single disaster in this century but as the most destructive landslide in U.S. history...
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