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Costa Rica, long an island of tranquillity in troubled Central America, is experiencing some unaccustomed turbulence. Minister of Security Angel Edmundo Solano Calderón put the nation's 6,000-man civil guard on "maximum alert" two weeks ago, citing rumors of a coup. After President Luis Alberto Monge ridiculed the takeover scare as "crazy," a chastened Solano said he had only been joking. But a few days later Monge asked Solano and the 14 other members of his Cabinet to resign, as well as nearly all of the country's 33 ambassadors...
...addition to the paintings, during his lifetime. Sert gave the Fogg the "Barcelona Series," a collection of prints also by Miro, and gave the University works by Calder and a pre-Columbian gold ornament collection...
...example, are able to sell what they can make from a barrel for only $26 to $27. As delegates from the 13 member nations harangued, haggled and tried to hammer out a scheme of prices and production quotas that would stabilize the market, Venezuela's Humberto Calderón Berti warned, "If we start fighting, all of us, the price will go down to $20 a barrel...
...talks continued through the weekend, the delegates became increasingly confident that a deal was imminent. The Iranians were surprisingly content to hold their production to present levels. The Venezuelans, who pleaded for a higher quota, agreed to accept a slight cut instead. On Sunday night Venezuela's Calderón Berti suddenly emerged and disclosed that the participants had hammered out new quotas designed to hold the oil price at $34. Iran's Mohammed Gharazi was jubilant. "This is the greatest victory for OPEC," he proclaimed...
...lets additional daylight into the offices, which are entered from open galleries surrounding the atrium. Unlike the Ford Foundation's atrium, which sports a lush tropical garden, the Hart Building's inner court is as yet a marble void. Plans for a huge sculpture by Alexander Calder (the last he designed before he died in 1976) were cut from the budget. Something is needed here. Elsewhere, Warnecke has created spots of charm, as in the lofty, baroque-style circular staircases...