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Padre Island also offers the vacationer some worthwhile excursions. Located on the southern tip of Texas, the island is less than an hour from the Rio Grande and Matamoros, Mexico...
...only drug profits, not the take from prostitution, gambling and other rackets that Noriega controlled. Should the dictator be forced into exile, he would have to leave his $600,000 Panama City mansion -- "hung with nearly 50 valuable oil paintings," according to the U.S. State Department -- his chalet in Rio Hato and his 60-acre retreat in Chiriqui province. But he might be able to enjoy some other holdings: luxury apartments in Paris and the Dominican Republic, a Boeing 727, three Learjets and yachts named Macho I, Macho II and Macho...
Similar scenes occurred in such towns as David, Chame, Anton and Rio Hato, and should help the U.S. defend the invasion before world public opinion as something better than imperialistic bullying. One indication: Peru, which suspended joint antidrug actions with the U.S. two weeks ago as a sign of outrage at the invasion, quietly resumed them last week. However, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution that called the Panamanian invasion a "flagrant violation of international...
...Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...weather was especially hard on growers in Texas' depressed Rio Grande valley, where fruit and vegetable production is the leading industry; citrus losses in that area alone could reach $55 million. Winter vegetables, including celery, cauliflower, radishes and broccoli, were heavily damaged in the South. In Florida, virtually the entire $200 million vegetable harvest might be gone, and in Texas only about 20% of the crop might be salvaged...