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...Reagan asked for $350 million in additional direct economic aid to the region this year. Explained Trade Representative William Brock: "We need one hard shot now because a lot of these countries are simply out of cash." El Salvador will get about $100 million more, as will economically ailing Costa Rica. The rest will be split among Jamaica, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. The package will raise economic aid to the region to $824 million, up 96% from last year...
...million in proposed financial aid, more than two-thirds will go to bail out three financially strapped countries: Jamaica, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. This money will merely permit these countries to handle their huge debt burdens for the rest of the year--not to initiate any new development program...
...initiative will likely stimulate the creation of many new products. And by calling for increased technology transfers and the teaching of marketing strategies. Reagan just might insure the region's future competitively in agriculture and industry. Additional U.S. financial assistance will probably bail out countries like Honduras and Costa Rica, enabling them to concentrate more on development programs...
...State of Siege, Costa-Gavras turned politics into melodrama; he propelled the Good Leftists and the Bad Rightists into collision so headlong that the moviegoer had little time to ponder the ideology. In The Conformist and 1900, Bernardo Bertolucci turned politics into opera; anyone susceptible to visual grandeur could be swept away by the characters' emotional arias and the camera's delirious glissandos. Now each has made a film about political kidnaping in a turbulent country-Chile in Missing, Italy in Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man-and has approached the subject at a more measured pace. Without...
...viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies. Spacek and Lemmon, an appealing sweet-and-sour combo, sink in the swamp of good intentions. Perhaps Costa-Gavras should jump back on the locomotive of melodrama. When he stands still, he builds prefab tract houses...