Word: costa
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During the eight-day journey that began last Wednesday in Costa Rica and that was to take him to Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Haiti, John Paul was visiting nations torn by insurrection and political change. Each faction on the ideological spectrum would examine his every utterance, hoping to find an endorsement of its political views. But first and foremost John Paul had come as a pastor, offering instruction, strength and solace to his Central American flock of 25 million Roman Catholics...
...Pope began his hazardous and challenging journey in Costa Rica, an enclave of sanity and democracy that served as a base for visits to Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador. John Paul clearly hoped that his words in this open society would resonate throughout the region. After emerging from his plane at Juan Santamaría International Airport to the delighted shrieks of hundreds of schoolchildren, he knelt to kiss the ground in his now traditional gesture of blessing. Then, almost immediately, he got down to tough business. Instead of offering a perfunctory response to the welcoming address by Costa Rican President...
John Paul's bold and crucial pilgrimage begins Wednesday in relatively placid Costa Rica, the base from which he will make hops to three other nations. One will be Nicaragua, which is ruled by a Marxist-dominated government in which several priests hold high positions despite papal displeasure. John Paul will visit Panama and El Salvador, the first time a modern Pope has traveled to a nation in the throes of an all-out civil war. Then he moves on to Guatemala, where he will meet General Efrain Rios Montt, an eccentric born-again Protestant whose regime is accused...
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...There has been a big change in Central America since the Nicaraguan revolution of 1979," said U.S. Ambassador to Honduras John Negroponte. "Since then, the Nicaraguan government has quadrupled the number of its uniformed soldiers and brought in between 1,700 and 2,000 Cuban security advisers. Honduras and Costa Rica are worried. So is El Salvador, which has suffered from Nicaragua's role as the springboard for the Salvadoran insurgency." Said another U.S. diplomat, who traveled from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa to observe the war games: "Big Pine is a political maneuver rather than one of major...