Word: paso
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought we'd usher in a new era where all this progress would be made," said Santiago in a speech titled "Black Skin, Latin Soul: Caught Between Two Cultures." "Now it's 1995. Que paso? What happened...
...Iowa, and Corporal Charles McMahon Jr. of Woburn, Massachusetts. Two Marine helicopter pilots also died on April 29 when their chopper crashed into the sea near an aircraft carrier taking part in the evacuation: Captain William Craig Nystul of Coronado, California, and First Lieutenant Michael John Shea of El Paso, Texas. They were the last four Americans killed in action in Vietnam...
...BECAME OBVIOUS PRETTY QUICKLY to John Wesley Anderson that there were not enough blue forms. Not by a long shot. Four weeks ago, Anderson, sheriff of peaceful El Paso County, in the shadow of Colorado's Pikes Peak, made good on a November campaign promise and adopted the most lenient standards in the state for the carrying of concealed weapons. Any citizen with a clean felony record who returned the blue form with an $85 check stood a decent chance of being allowed to carry a gun, without having to train in its use or even explain...
...understaffed police forces can express itself, without paradox, in both an assault-weapons ban and in the desire to pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson's office in El Paso County: "The police take care of the public, not the individual. This is a great chance for people to defend themselves." One of the most potent advocates in the Texas debate has been Suzanna Gratia, who watched helplessly as a deranged gunman executed 23 people--including her parents--at a cafeteria...
...Social strains are already being felt on the Mexican side of the border. In Tijuana, where much of its floating population of 15,000 migrant workers found itself stranded, petty crime has risen 10% since Operation Gatekeeper began. Thousands of workers who used to commute to jobs in El Paso to work are now without wages and have little hope for future employment...