Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote may have hurt the U.S. and the OAS more than Cuba. Earlier, there had been favorable reaction to the new hands-off U.S. policy, which Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs William D. Rogers described at Quito as "healthy." But Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica, which had co-sponsored the Cuban measure with Venezuela and Colombia, was openly bitter. "We have helped the United States when they needed us," he complained, "but now that we need their help, they do nothing." After the Cuban proposal failed, some Latin American newspapers, and even diplomats, claimed that...
...Organization of American States as "the whorehouse of imperialism." His acerbic judgment was presumably reinforced by the diplomatic and trade quarantine imposed on Cuba by the OAS three years later. Now, though, Castro may well be in a mind to revise his opinion. Last week OAS members- notably Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia-were lobbying for an end to the economic and political isolation of Cuba. When the foreign ministers of the organization meet in Quito this week, it is virtually certain that the required two-thirds majority of the 23 voting members will agree to drop the sanctions...
Popular Vigilance. Power in Portugal now seems to be divided between General Costa Gomes, 60, the country's military Chief of Staff, and Premier Vasco Gongalves, 53, also a career officer who is regarded as the principal architect of the April revolution. Gongalves and the more conservative Spinola fought on almost all important issues, with Costa Gomes, then the No. 2 man in the ruling junta, acting as referee. Now Goncalves and Costa Gomes profess agreement on almost everything. "Where General Spinola saw anarchy, General Costa Gomes sees a healthy popular vigilance," says Gongalves. "These differences [between us] prevented...
...Costa Gomes and Goncalves are in fact old friends. They served together in Angola, and both men participated from the very beginning in the April 25 movement that brought down the Caetano regime. Spinola was brought in after the coup to add his enormous prestige to the movement as titular head of state, but Costa Gomes was the preferred choice of the younger officers...
Besides attempting to quiet Washington's fears about Portugal's change in command, Costa Gomes last week also asked Washington's help in bolstering the Portuguese economy, which is bedeviled by an inflation rate of 30% a year and the return from Africa of thousands of jobless ex-colonists. Washington is likely to be sympathetic. Not only does it want Portugal to keep its newfound democracy, but it also wants to maintain the vital U.S. air base in the Azores. During the October war in the Middle East, Portugal was the only European country that openly cooperated...