Word: costa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheering Crowds. When Díaz Ordaz, a conservative onetime backlands attorney, took office a year ago, he decided to initiate a new good-neighbor policy. Last week's state visit, which took him first to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and continues this week in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, was a concrete result. His first communique, issued jointly with the Guatemalans, showed what he had in mind...
...GOLF CLASSIC (CBS, 3-4 p.m.). Third annual tournament, with 32 leading professional golfers competing for $166,000 at La Costa Country Club, Carlsbad, Calif...
...Contra Costa County, Calif., also began using the Coleman system in November 1964. Despite some bugs and errors, it reduced the number of precincts from 1,164 to 720, election personnel from 7,384 to 2,880, the election payroll from $127,797 to $73,870, and the man-hours required to tabulate the vote from 52,573 to 5,781-even while the total vote rose by more than 15% over the last previous election. >Fulton County (Atlanta), Ga., is one of several that has used a nifty little number called the IBM Votomatic. Invented by Dr. Joseph...
...American diplomacy in this hemisphere, as well as the Organization of American States. Merely by pressing for the creation of the force, the U.S. will create serious dissension. Four Latin American nations--Chile, Mexico, Columbia and Uruguay--have soundly denounced the proposal. Five others -- Peru, Venczucla, Argentina, Ecuador and Costa Rica are -- known to be opposed. "This idea of collective action in the internal affairs of states," Gabriel Valdez of Chile told the ministers, "reflects a negative defensive attitude capable of destroying historically the great effort of organizing a new world in the Americas...
Some Brazilians fear that because Costa e Silva has the power, he may one day succumb to the temptation to set himself up as Brazil's dictator. He scoffs at the idea. "If I wanted to be come a dictator," he says, "I would have taken power right after the revolution. It was all right there in my hands. But I refused. I have no taste for it." Elective political power, though, may be something else. His fellow soldiers want him to run, and in Brazil today that makes him the overwhelming favorite. "To put it bluntly," says...