Word: huey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countryside is strikingly similar to Viet Nam's," he says. "One afternoon, another reporter, also a Saigon press veteran, and I were sitting on a porch in northern Morazán province, looking out over a garden filled with tropical flowers. Just then a U.S.-made 'Huey' helicopter flapped overhead. We looked at each other, startled. Both of us had flashed back ten years to Viet Nam." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on his third extended reporting trip to El Salvador last week, also compares his experiences with Viet Nam. "In some ways," he says, "the risks...
...Linda Huey, chief organizer of the Four Point Channel Art Community Action Group, is less sanguine about the future. Sitting in her spacious studio-loft on the sixth floor of an almost deserted warehouse, just blocks away from the galleries, the voices her fears about what she calls "the largest art community Boston has ever seen"; "Initially, all us artists were attracted to the cheap space and perfect artistic environment found in old commercial buildings--things you just don't find in non-commercial sites. All we wanted to do was quietly work on our art by ourselves without being...
...situation could not last. Boston Wharf, the owners of the area, realised they had a large piece of land almost in the center of the city, and they plan to develop the area. "If this area is built up and rents rine, the art community will disappear," warns Huey, adding "Boston is a cultural city and it should preserve its cultural resources...
...dominated Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last week slipped under cover of darkness among the open hangars at El Salvador's heavily guarded Ilopango military airport. They placed explosive charges around some of the country's fleet of venerable fighter aircraft and 14 U.S.-built UH-1H "Huey" helicopters and then escaped undetected. At 1:30 a.m., the bombs went off and parts of the airport became an inferno...
...side of the spectrum, Roosevelt confronted not only the small, vociferous Communist and Socialist parties but also a gaggle of zealots appealing to all the embittered victims who felt that the New Deal had failed them. The most dangerous and fascistic of these, in Roosevelt's eyes, was Huey Long, who had combined graft, violence and promises of "Every Man a King" to build a kind of populist police state in Louisiana. Long was already threatening to run for President when he was shot down in the late summer of 1935 by a man whose family he had ruined...