Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the bombing, which the Bolivian government said was the work of local cocaine traffickers, Shultz gave a talk entitled "Winning the War Against Narcotics" at a La Paz hotel. Schultz praised Bolivia's anti-drug efforts and said that Congress "has looked at your law and your performance with great interest, and I trust that your steady commitment will convince the members of our legislative body of your serious intentions. To sum up, the drug traffickers are in trouble in Bolivia...
...monster may be the biggest thing to hit Bishopville (pop. 3,500) since Hometown Boy Felix ("Doc") Blanchard left in the 1940s and became an All- American fullback at West Point. Hunters with shotguns combed the swamp, and a local radio station offered a million-dollar reward for the creature's capture. Fourteen-inch footprints appeared on a dusty road; Sheriff Liston Truesdale intends to send plaster casts to the FBI, eventually. He may also ask Davis to take a polygraph. But no one is in much of a hurry to solve this mystery. "I hope they never catch...
...author's best-known work of fiction is the novel The Light in the Piazza (1960), in which an American mother takes her beautiful retarded daughter to Florence. There the girl is wooed and eventually wed by a local boy. As a bastion of faith, culture and family traditions, that city seems a good place for a helpless young woman, and an evocative locale for a writer...
...based National Enquirer. (Starting pay for a reporter: $50,000 a year, with no experience required, except an apparent aptitude for spying on the celebrity species.) The Fleet Streeters began arriving in droves during the 1970s, enough of them to field cricket games, fill dart rooms and prompt some local eateries to include bangers and mash on their menus. Their presence in turn encouraged other tabloids to set up shop nearby -- the Globe, the National Examiner, the Sun and the Weekly World News (son of Enquirer, to the irreverent) -- transforming Lantana and its environs into the tabloid capital of America...
...face a graver problem this year than the one in the U.S., where medical debris and sewage have washed up on beaches around New York City and New England. Authorities, for example, outlawed swimming last month in the Sea of Azov, 600 miles south of Moscow, after a local sewage system accidentally spilled raw waste into the water not once but twice...