Word: durango
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safely for half an hour. The vacuum machine costs about $450. Urologist Perry Nadig of San Antonio has followed 340 of his patients who have used the device, some for as long as six years; fully 80% of the men are satisfied with the results. Morton Perrin, 76, of Durango, Colo., whose impotence followed surgery for prostate cancer ten years ago, says he and his wife are delighted: "You'd think we were 26 years old again...
Homefront '88 wants to be "part of the rebuilding of the city and basically backing the humanity of this city," said its spokesman, John Grizz Williams, 32, originally of Durango, Colorado...
...apparently the first indication of cocaine use by a commercial pilot who was involved in a fatal crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said it discovered traces of the drug in the blood and urine of Pilot Steve Silver, whose Continental Express commuter plane crashed in January near Durango, Colo., killing nine...
...patriarch of an extended family of 2,000 members in Mexico, Jaime Herrera Nevarez, 60, was known as the "Drug Lord of Durango." The former policeman directed a heroin-smuggling pipeline into the U.S. Midwest that generated an estimated $200 million annually. Herrera was so sure he was untouchable that he regularly appeared at weddings and christenings...
...even question suspects. Though formally attached to the U.S. embassy, they mainly work undercover with paid informers. Much of the time, they are relatively powerless. Says one enforcement officer: "Intelligence is the only game we play down here. For example, some Chicago families have direct links with the Durango Mafia. We listen to the street talk and occasionally we get a report that so many k's (kilograms) are coming up." At that point the Americans pass on the information to Mexican police and hope, often vainly, for the best. "It is not unknown," says a U.S. official...