Word: costa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Costa Rica with President Kennedy to report his triumphant visit went two members of our Washington bureau, Jerry Hannifin, an old Latin American hand, and William Rademaekers, our new State Department correspondent...
...mood was reflected at a post-Costa Rican press conference. Newsmen tossed him some pretty sticky questions-and he took them in easy stride...
...greeted, President Kennedy last week visited San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica, to confer with six Central American Presidents. Estimates of the crowd lining the streets upon his arrival ranged up to 250,000-more than the total population of San Jose (200.000). and about one out of every five citizens of the entire nation...
...Army company moved in from the Canal Zone; the carrier Wasp, its jet fighters just three minutes away, cruised offshore. Some of the food for Kennedy's private meals was flown into San Jose from the Wasp. Preparatory to it all, the U.S. had requested and received from Costa Rica the right to screen all visa requests for entry into the little country. Among those who applied and were refused: Cuban Exile Leader Jose Miro Cardona (TIME cover, April 28, 1961), on the ground that the U.S. did not care to turn the occasion into a propaganda festival...
...Costa Rica is a congenial site for such a conference. With only two successful armed uprisings in this century, far below par for Caribbean nations, its elections are so free that since 1948 the opposition party has won every time. As a whole. Central America has responded smartly to U.S. prodding toward economic cooperation. Its own Common Market includes Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, which have knocked out 95% of the restrictive tariffs that existed between them. It has set up an effective regional bank and has made some 54,000 agricultural loans...