Word: paso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declared it is U.S. policy to protect the Persian Gulf from Soviet meddling. There is a possibly perilous gap between intention and capability about which Brown was questioned during his first stop of the day, at the Army's Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss in El Paso...
Addressing the Rotary Club and-Chamber of Commerce in El Paso, Brown said in his familiar flat, slow-cadenced style that "allegations about U.S. weakness in the area of readiness are misleading." These flaws, he continued, are measured against "some ideal standard" that ignores the "shortcomings of our adversaries." According to U.S. ratings, the Secretary said, two-thirds of the Soviet army would be considered unready to fight. Still, Brown neglected to mention that even if that is the case, the Soviets have 57 combat-ready divisions, or three times the U.S. number...
...send back to Cuba those who have serious criminal records or have violated U.S. law. Carter's order may well affect the 125 Cubans who led the riot; at week's end 60 of them were being transferred to a detention center in El Paso for trial in a federal court. To keep order in the Fort Chaffee camp, Carter tripled the federal troops to 2,000. But White House Press Secretary Jody Powell took care to note that "the vast majority" were not involved in the violence...
...giving his WRC-TV weathercast in kilts, Robin Hood costumes or George Washington getups. Audiences in Savannah have had a weather reporter who talked to a seagull; those in Cleveland have enjoyed one who blew hot licks on his trumpet between temperature recitations. Station KDBC-TV in El Paso has a Lhasa Apso named Puffy Little Cloud who gives a forecast by appearing on-camera in an outfit appropriate to the weather...
Oklahoma, victorious in the heat which involved the Crimson, advanced along with Texas El Paso and Kansas to today's two-mile final...