Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dollar's recent gain in value against many foreign currencies, which gives it more purchasing power outside the U.S., fewer Americans are traveling abroad these days. The State Department reports that passport applications were down 16% in January from last year. So far this winter, Spain's Costa del Sol has had 50,000 fewer visitors than expected. Only 30% of the rooms at the Rome Hilton were filled last month, against 45% the January before, and Hertz auto rentals in the Eternal City are off nearly...
State of Siege. Costa-Gavras' latest political drama (following Z and The Confession) written by Franco Solinas who scripted The Battle of Algiers. It was hailed as a masterpiece by one local Marxist critic, and as a radical hype by Pauline Kael. She liked the message of the movie which castigated American imperialism; what she disliked, and rightly, was he slick surface that injects the message into your veins without giving you the data needed to consider the issues raised. Yves Montand has the sort of impeccably cool father face perfect for the part he plays. His role is based...
...Costa Rica, where Vesco has business interests and political friends, the Corte Suprema de Justicia last July turned down an extradition bid by the U.S. Then, when Vesco asked for an advisory opinion, a federal criminal court in Buenos Aires ruled that Argentina would not extradite either, should he decide to move there. Finally, in the Bahamas, where Vesco gives campaign contributions to the ruling party and now has extensive financial operations, another magistrate has turned the U.S. down. Last week U.S. Attorney Paul
...sure, all the legal and diplomatic niceties are often observed. The exceptions sometimes occur because the final decision to extradite lies not with the judiciary, but with the executive. Even if the Costa Rican or Bahamian courts had upheld the U.S. application for Vesco, the executive branch of either country could have overruled or simply ignored the judicial extradition finding. The same is true in the U.S. No matter what the courts say, the Secretary of State has the authority to refuse to give up the fugitive...
...traffic. Some used appropriated buses as barricades, from which they peppered police with fruit and stones. In Constitution Square, students were met by a massive force of truncheon-swinging riot police and clouds of tear gas. In scenes that to some observers seemed like a re-enactment of the Costa-Gavras film Z, some police kicked and bludgeoned the demonstrators, while others fired machine guns into the air to scatter the student mobs...