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...Honduras, where most of the contras fighting the Sandinistas are based, the officers ruling the country profess unease over the U.S. military role there. Meanwhile, Panama has forced the United States to shut down its School of the Americas, training ground for thousands of Latin American soldiers. And in Costa Rica, the fragile democracy is chafing under Washington's efforts to militarize the country, and it refused a recent U.S. request to extend an airstrip near its border with Nicaragua...
...extend until Sept. 30 the deadline for candidates to register for the election. But the Sandinistas' sudden public relations campaign of sweet reason seemed to some former admirers to lack conviction. At a two-day meeting of representatives from Central America, Contadora and the European Community in Costa Rica at week's end, one European diplomat remarked: "It's growing a bit more difficult for us to be enthusiastic about the Nicaraguan revolution." -By Hunter R. Clark...
...Blodgett Peel, everybody's happy. Diving Coach John Walker has a strong contingent of woman divers returning, and junior Dan Watson is fresh from a third place finish at the U.S. Olympic trials to spice up a men's squad that also gains freshman Tomas Gilmore, of Costa Rica and Deerfield Academy...
...Costa Rica, long an island of tranquillity in troubled Central America, is experiencing some unaccustomed turbulence. Minister of Security Angel Edmundo Solano Calderón put the nation's 6,000-man civil guard on "maximum alert" two weeks ago, citing rumors of a coup. After President Luis Alberto Monge ridiculed the takeover scare as "crazy," a chastened Solano said he had only been joking. But a few days later Monge asked Solano and the 14 other members of his Cabinet to resign, as well as nearly all of the country's 33 ambassadors...
...more than $4 billion in foreign debt. A major target of the Cabinet shuffle, for instance, was Minister of the Presidency Fernando Berrocal Soto, whose reported role in winning government loans for a brother-in-law drew angry mutterings from other hard-pressed businessmen. Shortly before the resignations, Costa Rica asked for a two-week extension on an Aug. 15 deadline to comply with belt-tightening reforms requested by the International Monetary Fund. Monge is especially worried by the growing disenchantment of Costa Rica's middle class, whose standard of living has steadily declined since...