Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the sanitation workers refusing to pick up garbage, firemen manning the police picket lines in sympathy, and federal mediators stymied, many local citizens had had enough. Eighteen of the oldest and grandest krewes canceled their parades, the first time since the Korean War and only the ninth time in Mardi Gras's 122-year history. "We are not going to let Mardi Gras be held hostage by the Teamsters," read a statement issued by the krewes. "It means a half million dollars and a whole year's work down the drain, plus all the fun we miss...
...names of former habitues of Roberts Lounge, a bar near the airport where known cargo thieves, airline cargo handlers and plainclothes cops mingled, drank and bet on horses. The bar changed hands two years ago, but its current customers buzzed with gossip about the huge theft. Both federal and local investigators promptly began tailing the most likely suspects. Their problem was not so much whodunit, but how to prove...
Film Producer Robert Radnitz, who lives in one of the threatened houses, first spotted the boulder. Partially dislodged by a landslide, it had come to rest 200 ft. above his house. After vainly asking local officials to get rid of it, he finally sent an angry telegram to Governor Jerry Brown. The state thereupon declared an emergency, shut down five miles of the highway, and hired a Long Beach construction company for $97,000 to haul the boulder away...
Abundantly forewarned, the Vietnamese let regional border forces and local village militia take the brunt of the initial attack. An estimated three to five regular divisions (at least 30,000 troops) were held back. They were apparently arrayed in a crescent-shaped defense line that stretched from Yen Bai on the Red River in the west to Quang Yen on the east coast. Their mission: to defend the coastal plain surrounding Hanoi and Haiphong, and wait for the Chinese to show their hand...
...refugees arrive, Vietnamese officials are privately profiting from the exodus of their citizens who are seeking food and freedom abroad. After interviewing refugees, investigators believe that as much as 50% of the money would-be refugees pay to leave Viet Nam ends up in the pockets of local Communists...