Word: costa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the less-developed countries, the global downturn has been devastating. In Costa Rica, where unemployment has risen to 17%, the government is stepping up a program to hand out bread, rice, beans and other food to the jobless. In Tanzania, where inflation is running at 29%, the government has dropped 966 projects from its budget, including the construction of several schools and the country's new capital at Dodoma...
...some hope that he will abide by that promise. The lone military man, Army Major General Llamil Reston, who will be Interior Minister, shares Bignone's conviction that the armed forces must cooperate closely with labor and political leaders. Among the casualties of the reshuffle: Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez, an intellectual architect of the Falklands fiasco...
Whatever the extent of Soviet help, the Argentines seemed determined to get as much political mileage as possible out of their new overtures to the East. Last week Nicanor Costa Méndez became the first Argentine Foreign Minister to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro took power in 1959. In a startling scene, Costa Méndez embraced the Communist leader, who had done his best to stir up trouble in Latin America. Addressing a conference of nations professing nonalignment with the major powers, Costa Méndez then roundly denounced the "aggression of Great Britain" and said...
...effort to contain the damage, Haig delivered a conciliatory response to Costa Méndez. He rejected Argentina's demand for application of the 1947 Treaty of Rio, which calls upon the U.S. and 20 other signatories to come to each other's aid in the event of aggression from outside the hemisphere, on the ground that the first use of force in the Falklands crisis did not come from a non-American nation. A few days earlier, Haig had tried to patch up relations with Latin America by publicly calling upon Britain to be "magnanimous in victory...
...with blithe disregard for events in the waking world outside. On the façade of the town's posh Carlton Hotel, an electronic ticker tape mixed bulletins from the Malouines (Falklands) with screening schedules for the night's new films. While two movies about political prisoners -Costa-Gavras' Missing and a Turkish production, Yilmaz Güney's Yol - were winning the festival's top prize, the restaurants were abuzz with the latest news from Sophia Loren's pink-walled prison in Caserta near Naples. Comedy, melodrama, illusion 24 times per second. That...