Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highway for the next fiscal year; now he wants $75 million for the next three years. Matched by half that sum from Central American countries, the stepped-up appropriation would be enough, Ike thought, to close the gaps in the road (notably a 134-mile stretch in southeastern Costa Rica-TIME, March 14) and pave the dirt and gravel sections...
Tonight, String fellow Barr, Director of "Christians for Palestine" and President of St. John's College, will present the "unofficial Christian pro-Zionist view-point," while the Rev. Benjamin Nunes, Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United Nations, will participate in the panel discussion tomorrow night...
...tremendously impressed with U.S. State Department careerists in the countries he visited, came to believe that they are far more capable of administering economic aid than the Foreign Operations Administration. He was perhaps proudest of his success in soothing, at least temporarily, the Central American feud between Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
...Caribbean, asputter lately with small wars, 47 jet fighters mean overwhelming military strength. Four Thunderbolts in the Guatemalan revolution last year, and two Mustangs in the Costa Rican invasion this year, were enough to drive their enemies out of the air; jets would be even more efficient against the best prop jobs...
...Costa Rica stops the driver at the border with a seven-mile gap near the scene of January's revolutionary fighting, but work now going on should open this stretch to traffic by May 1. At the other end of the Costa Rican sector, after a breathtaking mountain drive offering glimpses of two oceans, the highway dwindles into nothing more than 134 miles of lines on a surveyor's map. Current construction...