Word: rios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...windows and fortified houses. In Brownsville, a dirt-poor border town of 110,000, those who could afford to fled inland. But since half the residents are below the poverty line, many had no place to go and no money to get there. Dozens of emergency shelters in the Rio Grande Valley were filled with locals and the many Mexicans who crossed the border seeking refuge...
...John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
...different appeals to specific groups of Texans to be banged home by local TV commercials and direct mail. In Abilene, for example, where B-1 bombers are based, the G.O.P. will charge incorrectly that Dukakis may scrap the program; messages beamed to the predominantly Roman Catholic Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley will stress Bush's opposition to abortion. Dukakis will counter by assailing the Administration's "borrow-and-spend" economics and accuse it of failing the oil-and-gas industry. He is further appealing to conservative values by blasting the Republicans' failure to win the war on drugs...
...margin in South Texas. If so, the campaign will be decided in the small towns of central and East Texas, home to the bulk of the state's 2 million swing voters, a quarter of the total. But there is a demographic codicil: the Democratic margin in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley depends heavily on retaining the loyalty of Hispanic voters, who are being assiduously courted by Bush. "Name me a Hispanic who doesn't like to hunt in South Texas," says Rancher Tony Salinas, who heads Hispanics for Bush. "Guns, abortion, patriotism -- these are cutting issues against Dukakis with...
...John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez