Word: reno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squad of plainclothes detectives seeking a drug suspect burst into the home of Nathaniel La Fleur, a respected black Miami schoolteacher. Although La Fleur protested loudly that the police had the wrong house, the officers beat both the teacher and his son Hollis, 20. Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno, who had once earned black respect as a liberal sympathetic to their complaints, failed to secure an indictment from a grand jury. She said the police had made "a dumb mistake...
While the gaming tables at the MGM-Grand Hotel in Reno pulled in about $65 million last year, someone was busy trying to improve the house take on liquor sales. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms charges that between May 1978 and July 1979, 16,000 bottles of liquor were refilled with cheaper booze; not only that, but unmixed drinks served in the Ziegfeld showroom were recycled. Any liquor left untouched after patrons had ogled the floor show went back into the bottle for the next customer. Some of the drinks wound up with more mileage on them...
History haunts Erks as "trails of blood, a web without geometry, a tangle of routes." His present is also lethal and complicated. He must drive four Chinese aliens over the Canadian border into Washington State, detour through Reno and deliver his human cargo in San Francisco. One of the Chinese is bleeding to death from a mysteriously inflicted knife wound. Another, by the name of Ginarn Taam, is being chased by the Triad, a sort of Oriental-American Mafia...
...arsonist who destroys the shop and also incinerates Taam's wife. Taam then kills the Triad torch and flees to Red China, where he becomes a respected party member. After seven years, his return to the U.S. is negotiated as part of a deal to sell a Reno casino to the Triad. They are not to be trusted...
...easy to look up to the man who is going to make you a star when you're 5 ft. 8 in. and he is 5 ft. 3 in. So Singer-Dancer Ann Jillian, 29, opening a nightclub act last week at Manhattan's Reno Sweeney, looked down-sweetly-on Mickey Rooney, who had got her booking. Since he first spotted Jillian two years ago, Rooney has also wangled her a part as a showgirl in his Broadway hit Sugar Babies and a role in the upcoming movie, Panic on the Potomac, in which they will both play...