Word: costa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peter Costa, director of the Harvard News Office, said that a reporter from The Times Called last Monday, asking about the speculation. The reporter had confirmed from administrators that the rumors were probably true, but agreed to hold the story one day until Harvard could release an official statement, Costa said...
...confirmed, but had no sense of the timing," Costa said. "I wouldn't confirm the story, so it would have been a speculative story, a rumor story...
...next day was "crazy" at both Mass. Hall and the Harvard News Office, according to Costa...
Another price paid by the Sandinistas came at the Dec. 12 convocation of the Central American Presidents in San Isidro, Costa Rica. It was there that the Sandinistas, in effect, repudiated the F.M.L.N. The declaration Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega signed at San Isidro called for the Salvadoran guerrillas to "immediately and effectively cease hostilities and join the process of dialogue." The document also expressed Ortega's support of Alfredo Cristiani's Salvadoran government as democratic, something Managua had previously never conceded. "We choked hard on that one," says a former Ortega adviser. "Of course we didn't believe...
...winds lay calm on the Caribbean that evening, but 30,000 feet up in a White House jet the President's chief of staff was stirring a political storm. Returning to Washington from the inauguration of Costa Rica's new leader, John Sununu wandered to the rear of the Boeing 707 to schmooze with the traveling press. But first he shed his suit jacket, his title and his name. At his insistence, Sununu was now a "senior White House official...