Word: rios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BONANZA your favorite TV show? Did you crave the sight of Chuck Connors shooting 'em up on The Riflemen? Well, Jonathan Kandell wants you to experience the real thing. Just hop a flight to Rio, but don't tarry too long in Sugar Loaf's shadow. To see the world of frontier adventure you must go inland to the heart of South America, the Amazon basin. There, in a climate only somewhat wetter than Dodge City, is the familiar world of shootouts, corrupt lawmen and hardy pioneers...
Victims are not usually culprits, but Vincente Sotelo is both. Sotelo, 29, unwittingly caused what some U.S. scientists are calling the worst nuclear accident ever in North America. As a result, he and 200 other residents of Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican town just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, are undergoing long-term tests for possible radiation poisoning, a condition that could result in genetic damage or cancer. Although Mexican authorities have been playing down the crisis, the people of Ciudad Juárez are the potential victims of exposure to dangerous levels of radiation...
...East, like his helping to rescue Chrysler from bankruptcy and advocating trade barriers to protect industry. Instead, say his aides, Mondale will preach "prairie populism" and stress that he worries about "real people, real jobs and real pocketbooks." He will particularly target large areas of poverty like the Rio Grande Valley, where unemployment...
...charges of brutality. The Miami Herald covers its parlous territory as thoroughly and fearlessly as any other city daily, whether in exposing racial discrimination in housing or in probing terrorist acts by anti-Castro Cuban exiles. But it does more. Its reportage of Latin America, aided by bureaus in Rio de Janeiro, San Salvador and, soon, Managua, is among the very best...
...take place, and that Figueiredo will present a compromise under which direct elections might take place as early as 1988. If that does not placate his opponents, however, the President may leave office next March to the beat of protests far less festive than last week's Rio rally. -By Laura Lopez. Reported...