Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puerto Limon, Costa Rica...
...last week alarming rumors of troop movements beyond the borders filled San Jose newspapers. Costa Rica braced itself for invasion by dissident filibusterers (TIME, Nov. 29). But through it all, President Jose ("Pepe") Figures kept cool, calm and laconic. Said his Saturday official communique: "No invasion is expected this weekend...
...last weekend ordered jet fighters to the Panama Canal Zone, where no jets have been based for the past six years. The move was aimed at stopping a projected invasion of Costa Rica by disgruntled Costa Rican émigrés, mightily helped by Nicaragua's tough strongman, Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
Tacho makes no bones about hating Costa Rica's dictator-hating President José ("Pepe") Figueres, whom he blames for a trying experience last April, when Nicaraguan exiles entering from Costa Rica tried to kill him after a party at the U.S. embassy. About every dark of the moon since then, some kind of anti-Figueres plot has popped up. In July the U.S. got Somoza cooled off only after he had sent a mile-long convoy of armored cars and trucks to the Costa Rican border. But the current plot looked more like the big show than...
...insiders heard it, the invaders were going to seize five ports, border towns and airfields near them. From these bases, planes would bomb Costa Rica's defenseless capital, San José. Women in the capital would be stirred up by fifth columnists to parade hysterically to the presidential residence and demand that Figueres resign, to spare his country. His enemies hoped that he would then lose his nerve and turn over his government to a rebel junta...