Word: costa
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Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott just completed a tour through Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala to learn how U.S. policy looks from Central America. "Arriving in Guatemala in the violent aftermath of last week's elections," he reports, "and meeting with defense officials, I found an embattled, suspense-charged atmosphere that reminded me of western films, in which the gunslingers are getting ready for high noon." On a different front, Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary has also been covering the Salvadoran conflict, but long-distance at the State Department. She has been reporting what she calls "the war of the words...
...killer brigades to wander the countryside, aimlessly murdering civilians while battling the ill-defined forces of the left? And what of the Nicaraguan bases. Cuban-built or not? They only become dangerous if interpreted as the first falling dominos in a potential avalanche tumbling across El Salvador, Hondouras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and then the shipping lanes of the Panama Canal. Wouldn't the United States be better off working toward genuine economic and social reform in those countries, improving our chance of long-term ties, rather than stubbornly endorsing the status quo and whining about the pernicious Cuban influence...
True, this movie is no documentary; director Costa-Gavras has abandoned the rough, detached, street observer approach of his earlier "Z" in favor of personalized portraits of his characters and highly-polished production Yet while the State Department has issued a formal statement condemning the premise behind the movie, no one has yet tried to challenge it in court. The story is based upon the disappearance of a young American writer. Charlie Horman '64, who was living in Chile when the Allende government was over-thrown in 1973 Immediately following the revolution, Horman's father (Jack Lemmon '47) travels...
...WHILE COSTA GAVRAS condemns the U.S. government for its role in the Chilean revolution he refuses to place the blame solely on the shoulders of the government officials Toward the end of the movie, when it becomes increasingly apparent that Charlie Horman has been shot, Gavras gives these slippery bureaucratic types we have grown to hate their say The U S ambassador to Chile explains to Lemmon that whatever the American government has done in Chile "has been done to protect the American way of life at home" Another official chimes in "and a very good way of life...
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras (Z, State of Siege) builds Missing around the arrival in Santia go of Herman's father Edmund (Jack Lemmon), who joins Horman's wife (Sissy Spacek) in a frustrating quest to find out what happened to his son (John Shea). Basing his narrative largely on Thomas Hauser's 1978 book, The Execution of Charles Horman (reissued in a new paperback as Missing), Costa-Gavras shows the pair running up against a phalanx of American diplomats who profess to be helping but who know all along that the Chilean military authorities have already murdered...