Word: stoplight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jorge Enrique Pulido, 44, producer of the Bogota TV news show Mundo Vision, and anchorwoman Ximena Godoy, 20, had just finished a Sunday broadcast. As Pulido halted his cream Renault sedan at a stoplight two blocks from the government-owned Inravision studios, a man waiting on a red Suzuki motorcyle dismounted and opened fire. Bullets from a 9-mm Ingram submachine gun hit Pulido in the throat and shoulder and struck Godoy in the leg. The gunman and an accomplice sped off on the motorcycle, as a passerby drove the victims to the hospital. By week's end Godoy...
North of Yuma, east of the Colorado River and smack in the middle of nowhere, Quartzsite is not an official town. Never incorporated, possessing no mayor, no schools, no stoplight, no town water or sewer system, no zoning rules or local police, the "gem of the desert" is home year round to maybe a thousand people...
There's no mayor, no water system, not even a stoplight. But each winter, tiny Quartzsite, Ariz., grows to absorb 200,000 people, only to shrink again come spring. What attracts the snowbirds...
...describe him as electrifying: he often seems to be moving and speaking in slow motion. Unlike many men in public life, he looks his age, a weathered 67. His sense of humor is as dry as a prairie breeze. In the operating room of a hospital in the one- stoplight town of Hale Center, he listens to a doctor describe the type of anesthesia used there. "Most of this crowd," he says, casting a grave look at the press corps, "thinks I'm asleep already...
With lawyers to intercept his mail and bodyguards to screen his movements, the fugitive managed to elude the U.S. Capitol police for ten days. Finally, a stakeout caught him at a stoplight near his home in Great Falls, Va. Running in a half crouch, Sergeant Tom Moore sprinted past a backup car of security men, reached through the auto's open window and slapped his quarry on the chest with a congressional subpoena. "O.K., you got me," the captive conceded...