Word: paso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only 15 years ago, Mexico's Ciudad Juarez was little more than a depressed backwater of El Paso, Texas. Today things are, to put it mildly, different. Factories in booming Juarez (pop. 1.1 million) are assembling everything from computer keyboards to windshield wipers for companies throughout the U.S. Meanwhile, unemployment in El Paso (pop. 547,000), where oil refining and clothing are major industries, has risen from 17,500 in 1980 to nearly 23,000 in March...
...standout guard for the University of Texas at El Paso, Hernell ("Jeep") Jackson, 23, was a local hero in a basketball-crazy city. His stunning leaps and savvy playmaking had helped his team win four Western Athletic Conference titles. Drafted this spring, he was headed for the U.S. Basketball League's Philadelphia Aces. Then early this month, during a benefit game, he collapsed and died...
...this responsibility and maturity that was just too strong to be overcome by the temptation to use drugs," said a friend. However, police called cocaine a "contributing factor" in Jackson's death. Jackson was well aware of cocaine's dangers: an FBI agent had lectured his team, and El Paso Coach Don Haskins had ordered three surprise drug tests, including one less than two months before Jackson's death. Jeep had passed...
...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-country...
...delivered. The Administration has even proposed eliminating promised federal funds for state and local police in next year's budget. "The Government isn't really serious about stopping drugs," charges a veteran Customs officer in southeast Texas. "Something is damn wrong." Declares Leo Samaniego, sheriff of El Paso County: "I have no concrete evidence that Operation Alliance even exists." Asks Carlos Tapia, chief deputy sheriff in Cameron County: "Where's the money? We haven't seen any. We feel like the bastard son abandoned...