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La Bamba is a musical biopic about Richie Valens, the first Hispanic pop star, who was killed in the same plane crash as Buddy Holly. Lou Diamond Philips stars in the lead role. La Bamba was directed by Luis Valdez.
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The USS Valdez is an American Knox Class frigate of 3011 tons standard displacement launched in 1973. The USS Valdez is powered by two Combustion Engineering boilers providing a top speed of 27 knots and a range of 6400 km at 22 knots running on one boiler. She carries a crew of 288 including 17 officers and is armed with eight McDonnell Douglas Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles; a Honeywell ASROC Mk 16 octuple anti-ship launcher; one FMC 5 inch/54 Mk 42 Mod 9 dual-purpose gun; a General Electric/General Dynamics 20 mm/76 6-barrelled Mk 15 Vulcan Phalanx gun and two pairs of 324 mm Mk 32 torpedo tubes taking the Honeywell Mk 46 and Mk 50 torpedoes. A SH-2F LAMPS I helicopter is also carried.
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Valdez-Cordova County is a county in the State of Alaska, USA.
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Valdez is a city in Valdez-Cordova County, Alaska, USA.
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