Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Drugs were another contributory cause. Said local TV Reporter Ernie Mills, who was in the first group of journalists swapped for guards: "Some of those in mates were so high that they could al most have flown out of that prison." Racial tensions, however, appear not to have been an important factor. About 60% of the inmates were Hispanics, 30% were white, and 10% were black. But most of the victims were also Hispanics...
...carnage. Said Pedro David, a University of New Mexico sociologist who studied the prison in the early 1970s: "There were people in the prison who were very disturbed mentally and belonged in a hospital." Indeed, prison officials reported that the riot was caused by a hard-core group of about 50 inmates, who through intimidation enlisted about 150 more active participants...
Possibly inspired by the mountains that towered behind him, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was in an elevated mood when he inspected Pakistan's border with Afghanistan last week. "You should know that the entire world is outraged," he told a group of refugees at Sadda, urging them in effect to reclaim their land "because God is on your side." After lunching in the mess of the famed Khyber Rifles, Brzezinski was garlanded by area tribal chiefs and had his picture taken at the Khyber Pass, quipping that it would be "a historic picture-three weeks before the march...
...skirmishes and limited incursions; the U.S. would intervene only if the country's security was threatened. Calling the talks "encouraging, fruitful and educational," Zia said that the American show of support "has brought new life to the 1959 agreement." Brzezinski and Christopher left behind a 15-man military group, headed by Assistant Secretary of Defense David McGiffert, to study Pakistan's defenses in the north and northwest and assess its arms needs...
...heart of the mystery may be the oil needs of South Africa. Blacklisted by Arab oil producers, and with no wells of its own, the Pretoria government has said it will buy oil however and wherever it is available. Aware of South Africa's needs, a group of high-seas swindlers allegedly went to work. The prime suspect is Soudan. A resident of Houston, the 36-year-old Lebanese expatriate was an insurance agent and would-be oil broker who last October set up a one-man business called the Oxford Shipping Co. In November, using $11.5 million that...