Word: costa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mike Mansfield proposed that the U.S. and Mexico join with other maritime nations in building the canal. But Mexico's initial reaction was cool. At that, a Tehuantepec canal would be the longest and most expensive to dig, costing $2.3 billion and requiring 815 nuclear explosives. The Nicaragua-Costa Rica route would cost less ($1.9 billion), but raises all sorts of political problems by crossing two countries. Another surveyed route, at the Atrato and Truando rivers of north west Colombia, could be excavated with 610 nuclear charges at a cost of $1.2 billion-and perhaps would raise fewer diplomatic...
After eight days on the scene in Panama, a five-nation OAS investigation team (Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay) flew back to Washington last week, unwilling to side either with Panama or the U.S. on the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots. Officially the investigators kept a diplomatic silence pending a formal report to the OAS Council. Unofficially they said they found no real proof of U.S. charges that Castroites had instigated the first riots - though pictures of later fighting did show Communist troublemakers in the forefront. The diplomats also concluded that U.S. troops along the Canal Zone border were...
When Jose Figueres, former president of Costa Rica, left Harvard after a term, as visiting professor this fall, he spoke with joy of the tremendous interest in Latin America evident among undergraduates at the college. But he also spoke with frank dismay of the lack of courses given to study of the area: its history, its politics, its literatures, its importance...
...Costa Rica in prospering under one of Latin America's strongest democratic governments...
...Latin American ambassadors failed to appear at a discussion of Latin American political problems Friday night. Enrique Tejera of Venezuela and Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica remained in Washington to attend a special reception for Thomas Mann, new Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America...