Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been the same. "Our humble town," complains Alvarez, "is becoming internationally known as a cocaine center." Trinidad has, willy- nilly, become home to the U.S. 193rd Infantry Brigade. Transported from Panama two weeks ago, the G.I.s are embarked on an earnest mission: to help the Bolivian drug-enforcement unit, known as the Leopards, wipe out cocaine- processing factories. But "Operation Blast Furnace," which has flooded Trinidad with more than 170 soldiers, a dozen or so agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and representatives from 53 news organizations, has proved as confused an antic as in an Evelyn Waugh novel...
SECURITY. To give the police more power to combat terrorism, the National Assembly has recently adopted measures that created a special antiterrorist unit and allowed random identity checks and detention of suspects for up to four days without charges. Security legislation passed last week tightened visa requirements. Police also gained the power to bar foreigners at the border and expel immigrants suspected of criminal associations...
...week's end the operation was at last under way, as U.S. pilots flew Leopards (as the special police of Bolivia's antidrug unit are known) on four raids. In the first one, 30 of the troops jumped out of two choppers near a 15-tent drug complex just as a Cessna aircraft was landing nearby. The pilot fled into the jungle, but his 17-year-old helper was seized. The raiders destroyed a log-frame laboratory where coca leaves were converted into coca paste...
...researchers cancelled plans to send Jason Jr., a camera-equipped robot inside, fearing that the stern's mangled opening would have snared the remote unit's electrical tether. "Too spooky," Ballard replied when asked how difficult conditions were...
...incident involved a presidential tape and former Nixon Counsel and Convicted Watergate Conspirator Chuck Colson. This time, though, the President was Jimmy Carter, the tape was a carpenter's measurer, and the locale was a four-unit apartment building under construction in Chicago. Both men were participating in a project of Habitat for Humanity, a Georgia-based outfit that builds homes for the poor. Carter has done previous Habitat stints in New York City, but this was the first such outing for Colson, now a born- again Christian and founder-head of Prison Fellowship Ministries. He finds the ex-President...