Word: rios
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...state and Washington. His career has played out in the boardrooms of Houston and the hideaway offices of the Capitol. The backslapping style of a Lyndon Johnson or a John Connally, two of his early supporters, is totally foreign to this patrician son of a wealthy landowner in the Rio Grande Valley. With his well-cut suits, nails that look manicured even when they are not, and silver hair he never lets down, he is Texas without the swagger, the kind of gentleman that stuffy men's clubs were made...
...bone-dry Brownsville, Texas, the rain came fast and furious, sending pedestrians scurrying for protection. Dozens took shelter at La Tienda Amigo, a retail mart near the bridge to Matamoros, Mexico, across the Rio Grande. Downpour turned to deluge, dumping two inches of rain in 30 minutes -- apparently enough to collapse the structure housing the store into a murderous heap of concrete and metal. Dozens of people were crushed or trapped in the rubble. One wall tumbled outward, killing a woman sitting in a car parked in front of the store. Anthony Padilla, a photographer for the Brownsville Herald, witnessed...
Bush, who once served at the U.N. and thus knows whereof he speaks, will argue that Dukakis' faith in international law is naive. There is something quite unnerving, say Dukakis' critics, about the idea of a President who has actually read the Rio Treaty. A more serious argument against multilateralism is that it can degenerate into a de facto isolationism; in a dirty and dangerous world, the U.S. could be paralyzed if it flinched whenever its allies were reticent...
...charges quickly became the centerpiece of the postelectoral furor. In Agualeguas, a small town just 25 miles south of the Rio Grande, P.R.I. officials claimed 3,379 votes for Salinas, but reporters from the Monterrey- based newspaper El Norte who had been monitoring the balloting claimed that only one-third that number had turned out to vote. In the barrio of Colonia Pancho Villa, a brawl broke out after the polls closed when P.R.I. officials physically ejected opposition representatives who were supposed to observe the ballot count. Elsewhere, there were charges that "galloping brigades" of up to 80 people...
...Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary 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, Yukinori Ishikawa, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez