Word: guardia
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...cocaine distribution capital of America today is probably Jackson Heights, a quiet, middle-class residential section of Queens in New York City, within walking distance of La Guardia Airport. Despite the elevated train tracks over Roosevelt Avenue, the neighborhood is neat and clean and, except for those in the drug trade, safe. At present 200,000 Colombian immigrants live there, most of them working in garment factories or running small legitimate businesses. But in the early '70s, half a dozen Colombian gangs, a network of perhaps 1,000, established the connection there...
...renewed a controversy in San Diego about such a busy airport's being situated in a heavily populated area. Yet San Diego is hardly alone in its worries: aircraft approaching Chicago's much busier O'Hare, Washington's National and New York's La Guardia and Kennedy airports regularly do so over densely populated areas...
...Esteli, beleaguered guardsmen protected themselves by holding twelve of the town's leading citizens hostage. And in Monimbó, an Indian barrio of 12,000 people on the outskirts of Masaya, angry rebels who have been battling the National Guard almost daily since February finally overran the local guardia station and slaughtered its two officers and a dozen enlisted...
...risen. As soon as the guerrillas' well-planned attacks began, they were spontaneously joined by other youths-"los muchachos" (the boys), townspeople called them-and even by older men and women wielding their own hunting rifles and automatic weapons grabbed from the hands of fallen members of the guardia. Copying the Sandinistas, the new rebels tied handkerchiefs over their faces to avoid identification. Their fight, as a result, soon was dubbed "The Revolution of the Scarves...
...financing for $9.5 million, it will pay for itself in short order: $6.5 million was donated to U.S.T.A. coffers by CBS in exchange for rights to televise the tournament for three years. Flushing Meadow is glass and concrete modern, not Forest Hills grass and Tudor. Jets from nearby La Guardia Airport roar overhead. And that most crucial modern convenience - enough restroom space for thousands of tennis fans-is in ample supply...