Word: costa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRESIDENT Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica has worked hard for peace in Central America, one of the most troubled regions of the globe. The Nobel Committee made an inspired and timely choice by awarding him the Peace Prize...
...agreement reached in Guatemala this August grew out of the peace plan first proposed by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias in February. According to Contreras, Arias's plan was incomplete as it aimed to solve the Central American problems on a domestic level and ignored the global importance of the region...
...House of Representatives hummed with excitement as Congressmen and Senators, many with their spouses and children in tow, awaited the man of the hour. When Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez arrived, the crowd swept to its feet as shouts of "Bravo! Bravo!" echoed through the chamber. That exuberant welcome was a measure of the respect that Arias has won on Capitol Hill for the peace plan conceived by him and signed two months ago by five Central American Presidents in Guatemala City. Arias' 30-minute address to the informal joint gathering of Congress was teeming with platitudes and somewhat...
...join in endorsing a proposal for $3.5 million in nonlethal U.S. aid for the contras. The appropriation, approved the following day by the House, is intended to tide them over until the Nov. 7 start of a regional cease-fire called for by the Guatemala plan. Reagan and his Costa Rican guest also agreed that a unilateral truce promised last week by the Sandinistas would not produce an enduring peace...
...Costa Rica' s Arias gets a mixed welcome in Washington. -- Sanctions against South Africa are ineffective. -- A new era for Quebec...