Word: tapia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly expected to get on a later flight," said Terianne Tapia, who was up from New York to visit her boyfriend in Boston. "It's a bummer. I have to be at work...
...local police in next year's budget. "The Government isn't really serious about stopping drugs," charges a veteran Customs officer in southeast Texas. "Something is damn wrong." Declares Leo Samaniego, sheriff of El Paso County: "I have no concrete evidence that Operation Alliance even exists." Asks Carlos Tapia, chief deputy sheriff in Cameron County: "Where's the money? We haven't seen any. We feel like the bastard son abandoned...
...campaign of intimidation extended to murder, though no government involvement has so far been proved. Early one morning last week a white van pulled up outside the apartment building of Jose Carrasco Tapia, 43, foreign editor of the anti-Pinochet magazine Analisis. Two men, dressed in civilian clothes and carrying automatic weapons, dragged Carrasco away without his shoes. "You're not going to need them," his wife quoted them as saying...
...south of Los Angeles, 9-ft. waves caused a section of the Pacific Coast Highway to collapse, isolating the wealthy beachfront town of Malibu. Because of a power failure, the Tapia Treatment Plant shut down, causing 15,000 gal. per min. of raw sewage to flow down Malibu Creek to the ocean and forcing officials to close beaches along 25 miles of shore, as far south as Marina Del Rey. In Redondo Beach, harbor officials scuttled the Lady Alexandra, a 225-ft. ship converted into a restaurant and disco. Storm-whipped waves had turned the ship on its side...