Word: costa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Certainly Wright was at the center of the action. Last August the Texas Democrat and President Reagan co-sponsored a peace plan for Central America. Two days later in Guatemala City, five of the region's Presidents, including Ortega, signed a different accord, this one championed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. Wright quickly threw his support behind the homegrown pact and invited Arias to address Congress. Since then Wright has repeatedly warned the Reagan Administration that no new funds for military aid to the contras will be approved so long as the peace process remains alive...
...Honduran official, alluding to the Reagan-Wright plan, which was unveiled without consulting the allies. Last week State Department officials continued to insist publicly that any U.S. talks with Nicaragua must include the other Central American countries. But privately they said Shultz was pushing Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to back bilateral talks...
...locals call him el Patron. A tough-talking, leathery native of Indiana, he came to Costa Rica in the early 1960s and carved out his own Central American Xanadu, 40 miles south of the Nicaraguan border. The 1,500-acre ranch where he raises cattle and grows oranges is the centerpiece of six properties he owns or manages. Once a week the modern-day feudal baron and his Costa Rican wife Margarita ride out on horseback to check on the 100 workers in their employ. El Patron also enjoys climbing into his blue-and-white Cessna and taking off from...
Hull, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Costa Rica, says the U.S. intelligence community once counted him among its most valuable assets along Nicaragua's southern border. When Congress was constraining the Reagan Administration from supporting the contras' war against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, Hull was a leader of the network that helped sustain the rebels' "southern front." His airstrips were used by planes that supplied U.S. weapons, food and clothes to the contras, his ranch house was the site of delicate negotiations among contra factions, and he was a conduit for money used to support rebel activities. Directly...
Crone, a U.S. citizen, testified that Costa Rican officials told him contra suppliers were running drugs, but the fearful witness refused to name names in public. In fact, Crone had pleaded to be allowed to give his testimony in private session. "I may be subject to some harassment from Mr. Hull in Costa Rica for the information I have given you," he explained. When asked outside the hearing room if he believed his life was in danger, Crone replied cryptically, "There have been those who have been killed or disappeared...