Word: costa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some a temporary change is enough. And for them the Peace Corps is one route. At 34, Lawyer Richard Enslen left his thriving practice in Kalamazoo, Mich., to head 150 other volunteers in Costa Rica. His wife stoutly enrolled their five children in native schools, went to a missionary clinic to have their sixth. Enslen says that "such service whets your appetite for more." Kalamazoo agrees: last fall the voters elected Enslen in absentia to a municipal judgeship that he has since returned to fill...
...splintered Acción Democrática party. The visit was a brief one, though, for there was another party back in Switzerland awaiting Betancourt's ministrations. That would be Renee Hartman Viso, 44, soon to become his wife. Betancourt disclosed that he had divorced his first wife, Costa Rican-born Carmen Valverde, to be free to marry Renee. But his absence during the long divorce proceedings, some Venezuelans believe, may cost Acción Democrática the 1968 election...
...taxpayers (to 3,000,000), raised revenues from $135 million a year to $960 million, and forced Brazilians for the first time to take their taxes seriously. Last week Travancas got repaid with interest for his efforts. As part of his move to "humanize" his government, President Arthur Costa e Silva called Travancas in and summarily sacked...
...When Costa e Silva took office last March and promised some relief from Castello Branco's brand of austerity, Brazil's upper classes began pressuring him to relieve them of Travancas. Costa held off, waiting for the right moment. It finally came when, during a television interview in Sao Paulo, Travancas described a big new crackdown on 3,000 delinquent companies. "If we were to look into all business returns in Sao Paulo," Travancas told his interviewer, "there would not be enough jail space to hold the tax evaders." Asked if a concentration camp were not the answer...
President Arthur Costa e Silva, 65, the army general who has been in office for nine months, did not quite know what to say. A staunch and faithful Catholic, he has visited Pope Paul twice in the past three years. To help arrange a truce, Costa asked to meet with the church's leading bishops some time next month. He realizes all too well that it was the wrath of the Catholic Church that helped topple Argen tine Dictator Juan Peron...