Word: costa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator-General Gomez da Costa dismissed last week somewhat curtly his Minister of Foreign Affairs, General Carmona...
With General da Costa under lock and key, General Carmona declared himself Dictator, Premier, and Minister of War. "I deposed General da Costa," he explained to pressmen, "because he conducted himself in a manner not only arbitrary but impolite...
...leaders of last week's quite routine revolution were: Commander Cabecadas, General Costa, Captain Baptista. They accounted for their seizure of power by the usual formula of military revolutionists...
...problems were discussed. For example, in Costa Rica and in Portugal, Girl Scouts cannot camp out - in the one case because of snakes, in the other because tradition forbids girls to sleep away from home...
...Toltecs had in their early days been strongly influenced by the early Maya culture in Guatemala. The great expansion of the Toltec Empire included practically all of the non-Maya peoples of Central and Southern Mexico, and as far south as Nicaragua and Costa Rica...