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Word: mexico (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home. The Bronx veterans' hospital where Ron is sent to recuperate is an open sewer teeming with rats, drugs and whores. Back in Massapequa, Ron is now the flinching veteran used as a prop for patriotism, and family life is a ceaseless, sickening debate about the war. Even in Mexico, at a kind of seraglio for impotent veterans, he finds little sympathy among his own crippled kind. He looks into the angry face of his buddy Charlie (Willem Dafoe) and finds a mirror of his own grotesque despair. He has hit bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...Rodriguez Gacha hooked up with Pablo Escobar and the then fledgling Medellin cartel. Gradually he worked his way up to midlevel cocaine dealer, pioneering new routes through Mexico and into the U.S. This, coupled with his fascination for bandito folklore, earned him the nickname El Mexicano. Through the years he financed the import of expensive foreign technology to serve the cartel's needs, and he has been linked to paramilitary death squads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs Death of a Drug Prince | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...insurgents brought the war home to the wealthy. Using luxury cars as barricades against the army's armored personnel carriers and light tanks, the rebels seized about 40 houses. For the most part, they carefully obeyed F.M.L.N. orders not to harm civilians. American officials warned F.M.L.N. representatives in Mexico City and San Salvador against endangering the lives of U.S. diplomats. None were hurt, but some envoys had close calls. On Thursday a chartered jet evacuated 234 civilian workers and dependents of U.S. officials. "The Bush Administration keeps saying that we are acting out of desperation, that the offensive will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America No Place to Hide | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...Does the United States have specially-made public trash cans designed to withstand a bomb explosion? When was the last time you saw a sign on a bus warning you about suspicious packages? Would America want Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as neighbors instead of Canada and Mexico? Clearly, there are major differences in the immediate security needs of Israel and America, and these differences necessarily have an effect on the political liberties of those living inside Israel. For example, Israeli Arabs do not serve in the Israeli army. If such a policy were enacted in America, it would constitute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legitimate Debate on Israel | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...this has bubbled cheerfully in the two novels that followed Berlin Game in Deighton's first Samson trilogy, Mexico Set and London Match, and then in Spy Hook, the beginning of a second trilogy, which has Samson under suspicion and on the run from his own colleagues. The current Spy Line sags just a bit, but it will lead, readers are assured, to resolution in a promised final thriller, Spy Sinker. Will Fiona and Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spooked by a Crumbling Wall | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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