Word: paso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually culprits, but Vincente Sotelo is both. Sotelo, 29, unwittingly caused what some U.S. scientists are calling the worst nuclear accident ever in North America. As a result, he and 200 other residents of Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican town just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, are undergoing long-term tests for possible radiation poisoning, a condition that could result in genetic damage or cancer. Although Mexican authorities have been playing down the crisis, the people of Ciudad Juárez are the potential victims of exposure to dangerous levels of radiation...
Reserves Ed Catchings and Eric Booker scored 18 points each as 13th-ranked NevadaLas Vegas overpowered Princeton, 68-56, last night in the opening game of the NCAA West Regional in Pullman, Wash, to set up a show-down against ninth-ranked Texas-El Paso...
...Texas-El Paso...
...Hill office of one of New Mexico's Senators phoned and said that Alex was alive. "We jumped up and down hugging each other," says his father, a machine operator. "All my friends came over to congratulate me." Next morning Jesus went off to work at the El Paso Natural Gas Co. Within hours he was back home. "My wife was crazy, running in the street and screaming. The neighbors were holding her." Two Marines in full-dress uniform had come to their immaculate little stucco house and told Manuela Muñoz that her son was, after...
...counterattack, Vice President George Bush, in a speech on Friday, announced the creation of five new regional interdiction centers that will be modeled on the South Florida experience. Based in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, El Paso and Long Beach, Calif., each new office will be assigned representatives from all the major military and intelligence bodies and will make use of equipment from other agencies. Explained one Bush aide: "The military has to go on training missions anyway. If we know of a trouble spot, why not ask the Air Force to fly a plane with radar to that spot...