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MISSING Directed by Costa-Gavras...
Screenplay by Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart...
Jagger, recently returned from a tour of Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras and Costa Rica, said she witnessed the forcible abduction of refugees by Salvadoran troops on Honduran soil. Plans to relocate the refugees 35 miles inland from the border would not guarantee their safety because of Honduran military collaboration with the Salvadoran Junta, Jagger added...
...furnish the stage on which his strange cast converge, Stone takes his cue from Joseph Conrad, who set Nostromo in an imaginary South American republic called Costa-guana. Stone squeezes Tecan and its more progressive neighbor Compostela into a fictional space between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and then provides topography and politics. The land here is racked periodically by earthquakes; when Holliwell arrives in Tecan, he senses the tremors of revolution as well. The local dictator, propped up by U.S. support and sadistic National Guardsmen wearing reflecting sunglasses, may have finally pushed his brutalized subjects too far. He is driving...
...Reagan Administration, which has been working through its embassy to aid Costa Rica with the IMF, hopes to get some money from Congress to help out. This week Carazo's government will meet with some of its international bank creditors and try again to avert the day of reckoning. &151;By William E. Smith. Reported by James Willwerth...