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...telephone. No television. No intrusions from the outside world. Or so Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez thought when he, his wife Margarita and their two young children settled into a remote beach house on the Pacific coast for a long weekend. Did he ever get it wrong. Through a complicated patchwork of radio signals, Arias was contacted from the capital city of San Jose by his younger brother Rodrigo, who serves as his chief of staff. "They've given you the Nobel Peace Prize," shouted Rodrigo...
...measured in the days before and after the Nov. 5 cease-fire. "The prize is a catalyst," he says. "It's a stimulus so that we don't lapse in our effort." No one, least of all Arias, believes eternal peace will reign three weeks from now; the Costa Rican President points out that the cease-fire "initiates a process, it doesn't end it." Yet most Central Americans agree that more progress has been made toward peace in the past two months than in the past six years and that Arias deserves the chance to play out his plan...
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...
...accept the Sandinista regime. Even as peace is being discussed the Reagan Administration is pressuring Congress to approve more military aid for the contras. One can only be hopeful that the Nobel will give Arias credibility in the halls of Washington, D.C. Immediately after winning the peace prize the Costa Rican leader asked Congress not to approve any more aid for the contras. House Speaker Jim Wright said that Arias' Nobel spelled doom for contra aid in Congress...
...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...