Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also claimed that a third person took part in the anti-Castro plot: Santo Trafficante, now in his mid-60s, who has been identified as the Mafia chief in Florida. A man who abhors publicity even more than most of his colleagues, Trafficante took refuge for 18 months in Costa Rica to escape his notoriety. He returned to the U.S. shortly after Roselli talked to the Senate committee...
...estimated that the organization had approximately 5000 members before the coup; of them, only 50 were still alive and out of prison in Chile. The rest were either in exile, in prison, or dead. The exiles include his wife and his two sons, who are in Costa Rica...
...trauma into a mere movie?and so quickly too. The film would be released before the nation's emotions had dried into something like a sober historical perspective. Moreover, the driving force behind the project was not an intellectually favored film maker of international repute?a Bertolucci or a Costa-Gavras. Instead it was Redford, a performer whose impeccable box office credentials are based largely on the fact that he is so damnably adorable...
...State proclaimed a "new dialogue" in 1973, he has canceled three announced trips to the southern half of the hemisphere. Last week Kissinger finally got the new dialogue going with visits to Venezuela, Peru and Brazil. This week, to wind up his tour, he will stop in Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala...
Vesco, his wife Patricia and his four oldest children plan to become Costa Rican citizens after they fulfill their five-year residence requirement in mid-1977. They figure their chances for acceptance can only be enhanced by the birth of Son Patrick Francisco-an undisputed Costa Rican citizen-last November. Says Vesco: "I am hopeful that some day the politicians will find something else to play around with, and it will all die down. All we want is to be left alone...