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...House of Representatives hummed with excitement as Congressmen and Senators, many with their spouses and children in tow, awaited the man of the hour. When Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez arrived, the crowd swept to its feet as shouts of "Bravo! Bravo!" echoed through the chamber. That exuberant welcome was a measure of the respect that Arias has won on Capitol Hill for the peace plan conceived by him and signed two months ago by five Central American Presidents in Guatemala City. Arias' 30-minute address to the informal joint gathering of Congress was teeming with platitudes and somewhat...
...join in endorsing a proposal for $3.5 million in nonlethal U.S. aid for the contras. The appropriation, approved the following day by the House, is intended to tide them over until the Nov. 7 start of a regional cease-fire called for by the Guatemala plan. Reagan and his Costa Rican guest also agreed that a unilateral truce promised last week by the Sandinistas would not produce an enduring peace...
...Costa Rica' s Arias gets a mixed welcome in Washington. -- Sanctions against South Africa are ineffective. -- A new era for Quebec...
...other Costa-Gavras films, including a recent and little-known picture about an American woman who is sucked into spying for Israeli intelligence yet who thinks she is in love with a handsome Palestinian, lack both political insight and quality. Unfortunately, Costa-Gavras is no Cocteau and does not succeed in being a jack of all trades...
Crime, in the end, does not pay. Nevertheless, it is rather too convenient of Costa-Gavras to remind his audience of this fact only after they have sat through an hour and a half of his film...