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No one was more galled by Managua's actions than Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, whose peace plan remains the framework for the now suspended Sandinista-contra talks. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Arias passed word to Managua last Monday that he believed the contras could again be...
"What the Sandinistas have done is to help those people who believe that the only way is through war," Arias said. "We have to choose between dialogue or more war." The Sandinistas seem to be leaning toward the second alternative, and soon.
"Costa Rica does not honor its name. It does not have a rich coast. It is a very poor country," Arias said later. "Our best resource, undoubtedly, is our people, the knowledge, and the education of our youth. You're undoubtedly supporting the effort [of] previous generations [who] for a...
Upon introducing Arias, Allison related the Costa Rican president's political philosophy to what he said was his favorite quotation from former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48.
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not?'" Allison quoted Kennedy, adding "Oscar Arias is a public servant who asks `why not?'"