Word: mcallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Border Patrol's McAllen sector, 280 miles of the U.S.-Mexico boundary, this drug bust last week was the third in as many days, although the first for months involving a shoot-out on U.S. soil. South Texas is one of the most important points of entry into the U.S. for Mexican-grown marijuana, as well as cocaine from Colombia. Last year the Border Patrol in the McAllen sector captured drugs worth more than $182 million. Yet for all their success, the Border Patrol and other U.S. agencies estimate that they intercept just 10% of the drugs coming across...
...five months on the road doing mostly one-night stands. They wake up in time to make the bus, travel much of the day to a new theater, play their parts, then adjourn to a hotel till bus call the next morning. Thus pass strings of small cities: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi; Pueblo, Albuquerque, El Paso. Four months into the tour, everyone is tired, everyone feels cut adrift, almost everyone suffers from a cough known as the "bus crud." The play, coincidentally, is a musical confection, On the Twentieth Century, about the giddy, romantic life of theatrical types traveling cross...
Many federal agents, as well as state and local police, complain that they are fighting smugglers without the paraphernalia they need, including night-vision devices, secure radios and electronic sensors to plant in remote airfields and along footpaths used by smugglers. The Customs Service in McAllen, Texas, has only one rubber raft to patrol a 170-mile stretch of the Rio Grande. Declares Silvestre Reyes, chief Border Patrol agent for the McAllen sector: "The crooks are better equipped than...
...Houston, Martha Carlin saw "water sloshing around in the coffee urns. Office doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked out the window at the trees and they were standing still, so I knew the wind wasn't blowing." The tremors were also felt in McAllen and Brownsville, cities in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas-Mexico border...
...Calif. 45 Robert Hobart MG Irvine, Calif. 46 Daniel Bennett LB Sherborn, Mass. 47 Tom Richerson CB Kirksville, Mo. 48 Brent Wilkinson LB Mt. Vernon, Ohio 49 Bill Solomon MG New Castle, Pa. 50 Scott Collins LB Elmhurst, Ill. 51 Dave Fanikos C Lynnfield, Mass. 52 Charlie Godinez C McAllen, Texas 52 Glen Philpott DB Canton, Mass. 53 Larry Bean LB Somerville, Mass. 54 John Keenan LB Salem, Mass. 55 Bob Joyce LB Weymouth, Mass. 55 Mike Murray C Lexington, Mass. 56 Jerry Garvey MG Plainville, Conn. 57 John Gibbons LB Holyoke, Mass. 58 Dennis Ineman C Fort Wayne...