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Trinidad is, in fact, a dirt-and-brickpaved town where the gravest safety threat is the street life, with its unnerving mix of horses, chickens and pickup trucks. Though dozens of drug-processing labs are scattered throughout the region's 77,220 sq. mi. of swamp and jungle, Trinidad is not a major cocaine center. Some locals are bitter that more modern cities farther south are siphoning off the side benefits of the cocaine trade. "Five years ago half the hotels and restaurants were filled year round with narco traffickers," sighs Jorge Lorgio Zambrana, 48, a hotel owner...
...physical as historical. Up close, she's an awesome sight. Her three sets of 16-in. guns, tooled more than four decades ago, are still, in the age of Star Wars, compelling instruments of destruction. They will hurl a projectile that is the equivalent in weight of a compact pickup truck out over the horizon to a target 26 miles away. The two-year refitting also added long- range Tomahawk missiles, medium-range Harpoon missiles and four 20-mm Gatling- type guns designed to throw out a "wall of lead" to stop incoming missiles. Combined with her 13.5-in. armor...
...charms of Texas is its inherent exaggeration of almost everything. Its weather runs to violent extremes. It is a rough joke to survive a drought of several years and then find the drought broken by torrential rains that can flood the town and wash away the pickup truck. Texas humor, like the Texas landscape, accommodates outrageous possibilities...
Sealed off by the water, the two began to examine the cliff and ended up bringing three tons of rock brought back to Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology in pickup trucks, a van and a station wagon...
...panelists predicted that the U.S.reaction may be a temporary phenomenon. "Ifthere's not another incident in the next two tofour weeks there will be a pickup in vacations toEurope," Peresky said...