Word: ariases
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Arias was a summer school student at Harvard while Kennedy was president, and by his own account, he took Kennedy as his guide after meeting the presidential candidate on Cape Cod in 1960.
Arias' behavior was a case study in grace under pressure, experts say. And that description, which was often applied to Kennedy, would surely please Arias, who in many ways has modeled himself after the late president.
Such a direct statement at the start of the talks set Ortega off balance, Hakim says, and led him to make the concessions necessary to sign on. Now only Honduras remained. Though hostile to the plan, the country risked being the "odd man out," Hakim says, and Arias emphasized that...
Arias confronted Ortega head on, asking him if he was willing to make concessions, says Peter Hakim, staff director of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, Inter-American Dialogue. If not, then it would be better for the leaders to go right to dinner and cut the meeting short, Arias...
In many ways, Arias' background is similar to Kennedy's. The son of one of Costa Rica's wealthiest coffee-trading families. Arias studied in both Europe and America and is known for his strong interest in cultural pursuits and intellectual life.