Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because they continued after five days of fighting to hang on to some of their targets, the Communists undeniably won a victory of sorts. In the raid on the poorly defended U.S. embassy in Saigon, they embarrassed and discomfited the U.S., still coping with the stinging humiliation of the Pueblo incident. They succeeded in demonstrating that, despite nearly three years of steady allied progress in the war, Communist commandos can still strike at will virtually anywhere in the country...
...Before receiving her award, Silko was an assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona. "I was sliding into despair. I might have thrown in the towel," she says. "Teaching just didn't give me the time I need for writing." Silko, who is a Laguna Pueblo Indian, now lives with her two sons on a small ranch in the Tucson Mountains. She has finished a screenplay, intended for public television, that is based on an Indian fable about an encounter with evil. She also reports "good progress" on her second novel, which retells the history...
...renovations and construction of piers that will be leased to the company. In Colorado, Fort Collins appears to be the victor in a three-town battle for a proposed Anheuser-Busch brewery that would create 500 jobs in the plant and 1,200 elsewhere. While the city of Pueblo offered 409 free acres of land and Greeley put together a land-and-amenities package worth $46 million, the deciding factor was Fort Collins' proximity to an interstate highway...
...film you mention in "Hating G.I.s Is Child's Play" [April 13] brought back sad memories. As a member of the U.S.S. Pueblo, seized by the North Koreans in 1968, I was forced to watch this movie as well as plays, operas, and even a circus with the same theme. The North Korean horror museum at Sinchon should be visited by every American. You will leave saddened and sick when you realize that a whole generation has been raised on hate, killing and revenge...
...living by writing some 30 inconsequential novels and innumerable short stories under a variety of aliases, including Simon Quinn, Jake Logan and Nick Carter. None bore much resemblance to their originator, an intense longdistance runner whose coloring and physiognomy "display a classic mix of genes -my mother is mostly Pueblo Indian and my father is straight out of an Andy Hardy movie...