Word: rio
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Many of the plants that reach markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan are smuggled across the Rio Grande River from Mexico, where peasants have stripped vast areas of Hidalgo and San Luis Potosi states almost bare of fragile and beautiful species. As a result, nearly 30 kinds are considered virtually extinct in Mexico, and 250 more are imperiled. Some choice species that sell for a few dollars each south of the border may fetch $50 or $60 at a Los Angeles nursery. Texas has no state law prohibiting the harvesting of cacti. While national preserves like the huge...
...left Cuba years ago in anger over Moscow's increasing influence, the incident occurred Oct. 27, 1962, at the height of the U.S.Soviet confrontation over the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. On that day, the Cuban President was visiting a Soviet missile base in Pinar del Rio, southwest of Havana. When a U-2 appeared on the base's radar, Castro asked the Soviets how to shoot down an attacking plane. The officers obligingly showed him the button that would fire off an SA-2 ground-to-air missile. Suddenly, Castro pushed the button. A missile went...
...Latin America corruption is pandemic from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. Bribing in Mexico is handled with the stylized flair of a Latin seduction, beginning with dinner at an expensive restaurant like La Hacienda de los Morales, and climaxing with a weekend jet-jaunt to Punta Cancun or Acapulco. The target of such lavish hospitality is most often the head of purchasing in one of the Mexican government's state ministries, who oversees procurement and importing...
Last week it appeared that the violence may have claimed yet another American: John J. Sullivan Jr., 26, a freelance journalist from Bogota, N.J., on assignment for Hustler magazine. Sullivan, who had previously spent a year in Rio de Janeiro, checked into the Sheraton six days before the slayings in the dining room. He left his room the next day, leaving behind his camera, tape recorder, typewriter, a Spanish dictionary and a well-worn handbook on South America. The tall, bearded newsman never returned to his room and has not been heard from...
...most threatened area in the Mountain West may be Colorado's gorgeous and still half-empty Western Slope. It is estimated that if Exxon does build 150 oil-shale plants there, the population in Rio Blanco and Garfield counties could shoot from 75,000 to 1.5 million. Colorado Senator Gary Hart has figured that the Exxon project alone would require enough new schools, hospitals and roads each year to accommodate a city the size of Grand Junction (pop. 54,000), now the largest city in western Colorado. Water would have to be imported from...