Word: del
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest collection of such pre-Hispanic gold as survived the ravages of conquistador and tomb robber belongs to Bogotá's Museo del Oro. In an effort to stem the flow of these exquisitely wrought masks, figurines, pectorals and pins out of Colombia and into foreign collections, the museum-underwritten by the national Banco de la República-has preserved some 20,000 pieces, dating from the end of the 1st millennium onward, since it began collecting 35 years ago. Two hundred of these are now on view, through July 28, at the Center for Inter-American Relations...
While visiting San Francisco last week, Nelson T. Shields IV, 23, of Greenville, Del., enjoyed a game of lacrosse with friends, then gave a fellow player a hand in moving a rug. Still clad in his playing shorts, sweatshirt and tennis shoes, he leaned over the trunk of a car to make room for the rug, when three fatal pistol shots whizzed seemingly out of nowhere and hit him in the back. Shields' death was the twelfth in the series of bizarre, random "Zebra" attacks -apparently not linked with the S.L.A.-that have plagued the city for 21 terrifying...
...cartel, named Union de Paises Exportadores del Banano (Union of Banana Exporting Countries), was formed by Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. It proposes to slap a $1 export tax on every 40-lb. box of bananas leaving Latin America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...higher oil prices posted by the petroleum cartel. The export price of bananas has remained flat for two decades at about 80 per Ib., while retail prices have climbed steadily, mostly to the benefit of three U.S.-owned companies that grow, ship and market the fruit: United Brands, Del Monte and Standard Fruit & Steamship. Acting singly, the growing countries could not get a bigger slice of the banana pie. Unlike petroleum, bananas cannot be stockpiled; in fact, they must be eaten within twelve days of being picked or they become too soft fpr most palates. So if any one country...
...GOOD YEAR tire plant shines in the afternoon sun as the train slows down for Wilmington, Del. Children play in a puddle of murky water to the side of a windowless concrete warehouse. The decayed corrugated metal walls of the Phoenix Steel Corp sit icily in dank shadows. On through fields of belching smokestacks and huge storage containers...