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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy, and it has been downhill ever since. Kennedy loved a couple of postprandial H. Upmann Demitasses. He could see the world better after his smoke. Indeed, in the tense days of 1962 he sent Pierre Salinger, his cigar-loving press secretary, out one night to round up a thousand of the Upmanns. A bewildered Salinger appeared next morning to assure the President he had commandeered this great treasure, whereupon J.F.K. sighed, "Thank goodness, I can sign this." He pulled the Cuban trade embargo from his desk and penned his signature, ending, among other things, the importation of Havana cigars...
...helicopters over the famous beaches-Omaha, Utah and the rest. They will inspect the surf through which the invaders struggled 40 years ago, young amphibians buffeted by waves and torn by crossfires. Their landfall, in a chaos of metal and smoke and dead bodies, began the end of the thousand-year Reich...
...authorities have expropriated about 150,000 acres of land belonging to the cocaine mafia. A March 10 raid uncovered one of the largest cocaine-processing operations in the world: a modern complex 430 miles southeast of Bogotá that boasted 19 laboratories, where a thousand workers produced an estimated 25 tons of cocaine a month. The plant's 13.8 tons of cocaine represented roughly one-fifth of U.S. yearly consumption (estimated street price: $1.2 billion). When the police dumped it into the nearby Yari River, the waters ran white with foam...
HARVARD IS FULL of annoyances during reading and exam periods--besides the exams themselves, of course. Someone always finishes the semester before you, making your plight seem all the worse. Dining halls echo with a thousand whines. One of the worst of these plagues comes in three Day-Glo colors: the highlighter...
...paroxysms of violence which swept Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in the early 1970's, is obviously happy to emphasize the hopeful side of the continent's recent history. However, his optimism looks not to the past, but the future. The book takes the reader along an imaginary road, five thousand miles along-a crescent along the fringes of the Amazon watershed. The road was sketched out by Peruvian President Belaunde, for whom it was part of a vision of a prosperous, developed core of a continent that would have freed itself of social turmoil. The reader can only hope that...