Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difference in U.S. and Argentine preoccupations showed up plainly on the White House South Lawn, where President Reagan first met his visitor. After 21 guns banged out their salute and a fife and drum corps clad in Revolutionary War uniforms tweetled a welcome, Reagan declared that "the flame of liberty burns red-hot in Argentina." Taking note of Argentina's woes, Reagan advocated making "tough decisions" in the economic sphere, meaning austerity, as the best solution leading to recovery. Reagan also took the opportunity to extol his own hard-line policies in Central America, particularly vis-a-vis the leftist...
...then got a court order directing the pastor to leave. On Nov. 13 the recalcitrant Roth was arrested and began a 112-day jail term. Released from jail, Roth returned last week to Trinity, which was padlocked by court order, and conducted a Communion service on the church lawn...
...Fenway Park. "Everybody wants to be a part of something. I understand that now," he says. "In college I didn't, but I'm getting better. Some days I want to be around people, but other days I just don't." Seeking privacy, he folds himself up like a lawn chair--haunches, levers and various other right angles--into a tiny airport telephone nook, and picks up Schlesinger on page...
Perhaps in response to Washington's pressure, Mexican police detained a former Mexican security officer and two former policemen for questioning--only to release them four days later. DEA officials suggested that the arrests had been made only for show; the new DEA chief, Robert Lawn, even accused Mexican police of a role in Camarena's kidnaping. With so much sniping across the border, the Mexicans tried to salvage their image. In a national television appearance, Defense Secretary Juan Arevalo Gardoqui declared, "We are fervent and passionate fighters against the (narcotics) traffic...
...Arthur Sedillo, another Mexico-based DEA agent, told members of the President's Commission on Organized Crime in Miami last week that both families are heavily involved in opium and marijuana production and are believed to have joint operations with Colombian drug mafiosos. Earlier, DEA Deputy Administrator John C. Lawn testified that the Guadalajara traficantes had threatened eyewitnesses to the Camarena abduction. Added Lawn: "There was a reluctance on the part of law enforcement authorities in Guadalajara and Mexico City to initiate an investigation...