Word: druggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panamanian people face a continuation of the dismal Noriega regime, marked by drug profiteering for the few and harsh austerity for the many...
DRUGSTORE COWBOY. Matt Dillon and friends go on a drug spree in Gus Van Sant's eye-catching tour of the lower depths. Dillon, a punk Montgomery Clift, is pure Acapulco gold as a smart addict who gets scared straight...
...revived San Francisco's mostly unjustified arrogance toward its East Bay neighbor. The old cliches have been aired yet again about Giants fans partying on Chardonnay and quiche in Candlestick parking lots while A's adherents settle for beer and bratwurst at the Coliseum. San Franciscans sneer at the drug problem in "Cokeland," and last week Mayor Art Agnos took arrogance to new heights, initially declining to make the traditional World Series bet with his Oakland counterpart, Lionel Wilson, because "there's nothing in Oakland I want...
...Reagan Revolution's hands-off attitude persists in Washington, where governing by symbolism has taken the place of tough decision making on budget deficits, the drug scourge, failing schools and the urgent need to support the glimmerings of democracy in Eastern Europe. -- With big victories in Florida and on Capitol Hill, the pro-choice majority proves it is not so silent. -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s best friend writes a tattletale memoir...
...blame for the coup's collapse seemed to be the brave but muddled men who staged it. But congressional critics from both parties lambasted George Bush for failing to dispatch American troops to snatch the dictator and spirit him back to the U.S., where he is wanted on drug-trafficking charges. The White House in turn scolded Congress for trying to micromanage a fast-moving crisis and for hypocritically turning hawkish after earlier rejecting Administration plans for covert action against the strongman. There is plenty of blame to go around...