Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief B.U. negotiators Leonard Costa and Robert A. Bergenheim were unavailable for comment yesterday...
Buenos Aires Correspondent George Russell, who had been reporting from the Sandinista headquarters-in-exile in Costa Rica, joined Diederich then but had some trouble adjusting to Inter-Continental Hotel hospitality. Said Russell...
...last Tuesday. It was a cause of quiet celebration for the junta, four of whose five members had gathered at the home of Sergio Ramirez Mercado to await the news. With victory seemingly at hand, Nicaragua's new leaders prepared to board two private planes provided by the Costa Rican government. Their triumphant entry into Managua, they announced, would take place "within 24 hours." But that...
...parents were loyal members of the pro-Somoza Liberal Party. Ramírez was first exposed to opposition politics as a law student at the National University of Nicaragua in the early 1960s. After graduating, he took an administrative job at the Council of Central American Universities in Costa Rica and seemed to lose contact with the revolutionary movement. He did postgraduate work at the University of Kansas, where he learned English, and taught in West Germany before returning in 1974 to Costa Rica, where he joined the struggle to topple Somoza...
...jetliner, owned by Global International Airlines of Kansas City, had been hired for $89,000 by a Belgian company called Young Air Cargo. The plane left Beirut for Costa Rica supposedly carrying 60,000 Ibs. of medical supplies. The 707's pilot, Paul Marable, 58, thought it odd that anyone would be flying that kind of cargo from war-torn Lebanon across the Atlantic...