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...exception to the general harmony along the border is the friction between Tijuana (pop. 566,000), a former honky-tonk town that has made impressive progress in modernizing its business section, and San Diego (pop. 2 million), an adjacent Sunbelt city with many military personnel, both active and retired, and relatively few Hispanic residents. The canyons and ravines on the south side of San Diego have become a no-man's-land, where Mexican bandits, many of them drug addicts, prey on their countrymen crossing the border illegally. U.S. Border Patrol agents and San Diego police trying to control this...
...started out the three of us, me and Doc and Honey." The trio is first seen performing some honky-tonk behind a wire fence as the roadies loss a beer bottle or two at them. Jenkins, we learn, has survived a lot more than this along the way, and this opening credit sequence qualifies as a classic bit of compacting...
DIED. Ernest Tubb, 70, the "Texas Troubadour," pioneer of honky-tonk country music and pillar of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry since 1943, whose many hits included I'm Walking the Floor Over You, Waltz Across Texas and Tomorrow Never Comes; of emphysema; in Nashville...
...from the torch relay would go to worthwhile causes, including the Boys' Clubs of America and the Special Olympics (for the handicapped) and the Y.M.C.A. The Greeks were not convinced. According to Peter Ueberroth, president of the L.A.O.O.C., the Greeks saw the relay as "some kind of honky-tonk road show...
...King's English, how about a Bronx cab driver's being coached to sing like a country boy? That's what Dolly Parton, 37, is doing to Sylvester Stallone, 37, in Rhinestone, which just started filming in Manhattan. Parton plays a singer in a honky-tonk bar who bets her boss that she can turn anyone into a country-and-western star. Enter You-Know-Who. Country Rocky soon learns how to belt it out not in the ring but on the stage. Off the set, Parton says she has been learning a few things from...