Word: luz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case before the court involved Luz Marina Cardoza-Fonseca, 38, a Nicaraguan who now lives in Nevada. Cardoza-Fonseca unsuccessfully claimed before theINS that if forced to return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before he escaped to the U.S. Justice Stevens upheld a lower-court ruling that the INS must reconsider her case using the more lenient standard. In a dissent joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, Lewis Powell maintained it was reasonable for the INS to find no practical distinction between...
Farther to the south, the San Diego River, normally just a trickle, flooded the city's biggest hotel and shopping district. Six reservoirs swelled to their highest levels since 1941. Medical supplies and food had to be airlifted to 200 families marooned in nearby De Luz when the Margarita River overflowed its banks. In Phoenix, Ariz., the Salt River, which is normally dry at this time of year, turned into a torrent, cutting off all but two of 13 crossings into the city from the suburbs...