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...reason Judy Benjamin finds herself in this unlikely situation is that she has joined the Army under the delusion, fostered by a smooth-talking recruiter, that basic training will be something like "six weeks at La Costa." This, she believes, will help her recover from the grief of husband No. 2's death as well as give her the independence and gumption she has not acquired in her life as a certified Jewish American princess. It is hard to believe that a woman of 28, no matter how dippy, would think that yachting is an activity much pursued even...
...extradition from the Bahamas, where he fled in 1978, he is eager to resume his career as a globe-trotting financier. U.S. investigators have already tried to collar him: last winter in an operation of questionable legality, the FBI made plans to seize Vesco on a commercial flight between Costa Rica and the Bahamas and divert the plane to Florida. Vesco was tipped off and avoided the trap...
...first clear indication of the government's moratorium on elections came late last month in a speech by Humberto Ortega Saavedra, 34, the Defense Minister. On the same platform was the visiting President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, who had made a strong plea, as advice from a neighbor, for early elections. But when it came his turn to speak, Ortega announced that elections would not be held until 1985. "The economic and moral destruction of the country is of such magnitude that it cannot be rebuilt before 1985," he said, by way of explanation...
...England for the U.K.'s respected and successful Open University, an off-campus program that has enrolled some 200,000 students since it began a decade ago. A joint undertaking with the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Open University has inspired counterparts in 16 countries, including West Germany, Costa Rica, Spain and Sri Lanka...
...Costa Rica played a godfather role of its own during the Nicaraguan civil war: President Rodrigo Carazo tacitly aided the Sandinistas by allowing them to ship arms across his territory and establish training camps along his border. The Sandinistas even set up their government in exile in San José. That role apparently caused some frictions with Washington at the time, but the Carazo government remains strongly pro-U.S. and antiCommunist. Says former Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio Segreda confidently: "If the extreme left takes power in El Salvador, the leftists rest-of but not Central Costa America Rica." will...