Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joel and Costa were joined by Katie Kelley and Julie McAree for the 200-meter medley relay, but with 1:57.39, they missed the chance for the nationals by 2.1 seconds...
...Gosh," said Donald Davis, 36, a former employee of the Michigan state police who was co-piloting the lumbering old DC-6. "I don't know what all the activity is about. We were headed for Costa Rica from Florida when our navigation went out. We were down to our last drop of fuel when we landed...
...vote ended months of uncertainty over who would hold power in Lisbon. The Socialists, who are the largest party in the fractious Assembly, rejected the previous government, which was formed last summer by Alfredo Nobre da Costa, an apolitical technocrat, at the behest of President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. Eanes had just dropped Socialist Party Chief Mario Scares from the premiership after his governing coalition with the conservative Center Democrats fell apart. Scares was incensed by his ouster and was particularly upset because Eanes had not consulted the political parties before choosing Nobre da Costa. The former Premier insisted Eanes' action...
Mota Pinto, who describes himself as "independent and nonpolitical," intends to keep his government of technocrats and holdovers from the Nobre da Costa caretaker regime in office at least until 1980, when general elections are scheduled. In his favor is a definite shift to the right in Portugal's political spectrum. The Socialists have lost badly in by-elections in the conservative north. Portuguese banks, nationalized in 1975, have more or less gone back to operating as private institutions. A Right-Wing Party of Portugal has been formed...
DIED. Robert C. Hill, 61, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1969-72) and four Latin American nations; of a heart attack; in Littleton, N.H. An executive with W.R. Grace & Co., Hill became the youngest ambassador in American history when he was appointed envoy to Costa Rica in 1953 at age 36. He was sent to El Salvador the following year and to Mexico City from 1957 to 1961. Returning to private business, he also served on the Republican National Committee's foreign policy task force, and was sent to Madrid when President Nixon took office. Hill was assigned...