Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been forged between Cuba and Peru, Argentina, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad-Tobago.* Last week Panama was added to the list when 30 jubilant Panamanian officials flew to Havana to sign a declaration restoring diplomatic, economic and cultural links between the two nations. Next in line are Ecuador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia-and probably...
Above the Law. The bishops chose not to attack the women directly but rather the errant colleagues who had ordained them: three retired or resigned U.S. bishops (the Rt. Revs. Robert L. De Witt, Daniel Corrigan and Edward R. Welles II) and the current bishop of Costa Rica, the Rt. Rev. J. Antonio Ramos, who participated in the ceremony only peripherally. One of the leaders of the attack was Bishop Harold B. Robinson of Western New York, who complained that the ordaining bishops' action was "a parallel to Nixon. These men have placed themselves above the law." Along with...
...Daniel Corrigan, 73, the retired bishop who had headed domestic missions, all apparently ignored a canon that forbids retired bishops to perform "episcopal acts" unless so requested by the local bishop. There was no such request. The fourth participant, the Rt. Rev. José Antonio Ramos, 37, of Costa Rica, was acting out of his jurisdiction. The four could be suspended or deposed by a church trial court...
...close touch with developments in Athens and no one ever doubted that he was only biding his time until Greece would one day see fit to call him back. When the call finally came last week, he was both ready and willing. Even his old political opponents agreed that "Costa" Caramanlis was the only man who could rally the country behind him. Explained Constantine Mitsotakis, an exiled leader of the Center Union Party and one of his old opponents: "Caramanlis embodies the myth of the strong man who can be trusted...
State of Siege is far and away the best movie playing in Cambridge this weekend. Costa-Gavras, who made his mark with Z, follows his political understandings to their logical conclusion in this film about the kidnapping of an AID official in Latin America and comes up with a brilliant and controversial ideological statement. The movie was supposed to open in the United States at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, but the center's film director pulled it at the last moment because he thought it was too "anti-American." When the film opened in New York...