Word: poco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mexico, 1916. After a gang of bandits terrorizes the village of Santa Poco, a lovely senorita telegraphs three cowboy heroes she saw in a movie. To the rescue ride "Lucky Day" (Steve Martin), "Dusty Bottoms" (Chevy Chase) and "Ned Nederlander" (Martin Short), three bumbling actors who have just been fired by their Hollywood studio. They think they have been invited south of the border to sing, not shoot, but in the end they rally the villagers to throw out the desperadoes. The Magnificent Seven it is not; it is The Three Amigos, a comedy adventure due for Christmas that also...
...target for Nicaraguan reprisals. Just three months ago, after ARDE Chief Eden Pastora Gomez used his Costa Rican base to launch a 36-hour attack on the Nicaraguan port town of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua struck back by firing 60 rockets at the Costa Rican border settlement of Poco Sol. Not long before the Sandinistas began assaulting the border town of Peñas Blancas, Costa Rican President Monge sent an urgent message to Washington asking that a shipment of $7.85 million in promised military aid be sent posthaste...