Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that crisscross Montana's million-acre Glacier National Park. River runners can launch themselves and their specially designed rubber boats down the foaming Colorado for a 277-mile run or trek into Texas' Big Bend National Park and try taking kayaks down the sinuous stretches of the Rio Grande...
Died. Carlos Lacerda, 63, fiery, flamboyant anti-Communist journalist, publisher and politician; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. As governor of Guanabara state, which included Rio de Janeiro, he vociferously supported military leaders in overthrowing President Joao Goulart in 1964. Briefly thereafter a contender for President himself, he eventually, in 1969, was stripped of his political rights for opposing the military regime...
Died. Ricardo Cortez, 77, suave silent-screen star who appeared in more than 350 movies; in Manhattan. Born Jack Krantz, he changed his name when Hollywood producers slated him to follow Rudolph Valentino in romantic parts with such actresses as Greta Garbo, Clara Bow and Dolores Del Rio. As a boy, he was a runner on Wall Street, and in later life became a stockbroker...
...Starr County drug trade has long been controlled by a few tightly-knit Mexican-American families who own land along the Rio Grande; in some cases, their relatives hold property on the Mexican side. For years they were virtually a law unto themselves. One of the indicted traffickers had even ordered auto license plates spelling out MAFIA. "They don't deal with anyone they don't trust," says Texas Antidrug Official Neal Duvall, "and they only trust family." According to a grand jury report, 10% to 35% of the population of Starr County have been involved...
...Evins, who filled in for 16 months after the impeachment. "I could sense the reluctance of witnesses to testify." And with good reason. Five years ago, a local grand jury started to look into the drug traffic; after two girls who had testified were found floating in the Rio Grande, the jury dropped its investigation...