Word: roadblocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.--President Bush and Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will hold their first summit meeting next year, officials announced Saturday as the two superpowers completed a half-dozen accords and cleared a major roadblock to a treaty on slashing long-range nuclear weapons...
...shocking condemnation of our democracy. To bring them back in, symbols must be replaced with substance, and candidates must back their statements with compelling reasons, not ad hominem arguments. It is in this climate that liberal democracy will flourish, when the competition of ideas stimulates national reflection. One major roadblock to any kind of enlightened discourse is the prevalence of television ads as the primary conduit between the candidate and the public...
...threats made against the lives of Americans residing in Bogota became so widespread that U.S. embassy children were evacuated. Extradited to Colombia in 1986 on a bull-smuggling charge, Ochoa was improperly released in August and eluded authorities until last November, when highway patrolmen stopped him at a routine roadblock in southern Colombia. Washington, elated, immediately sought his extradition. Thus when Ochoa slipped away two weeks ago, a State Department spokesman resorted to distinctly undiplomatic language, describing Ochoa's release as "disgusting...
...ONCE AGAIN THE MAFIA MAKES A FOOL OF COLOMBIA. The paper was denouncing the release from prison last week of Billionaire Jorge Ochoa Vasquez, 38, reputedly a leader of a crime cartel that supplies 80% of the cocaine consumed in the U.S. Ever since Ochoa was arrested at a roadblock on Nov. 21, Washington and Bogota had been negotiating over his extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on drug trafficking charges...
Heading down Route Nationale 1 on an August night in a dark and slashing rain, Aristide and three other priests, all of whom have spoken out against military abuses, were stopped first at an army checkpoint and then at an improvised roadblock less than 300 feet down the road. There, a gang of about 40, armed with rocks, sticks, machetes and guns, began stoning the car. Two of & the priests hid Aristide on the floor. Soldiers only a short distance away ignored the assault...