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...Figueres was considered a "Communist" by some because of his social reforms. Williamson and his wife made no effort to hide their dislike for the President-particularly after Don Pepe. having already established relations with Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, moved to exchange ambassadors with the Soviet Union as well. (Costa Rica has been selling its surplus coffee to the Russians for U.S. dollars for two years...
...Costa Rica's admirable if not entirely unblemished history of democratic government, no figure stands taller than diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.), scrappy José Figueres Ferrer, 64. At the head of a ragtag band of rebels in 1948, "Don Pepe" routed a Communist military coalition that had tried to seize power illegally. He banned the Communist party, abolished the army (Costa Rica has not had one since), instituted many social reforms and, after 18 months, restored power to the elected President. Figueres was elected to the presidency in his own right in 1953 and again last year. Educated...
With that sort of record, Pepe Figueres seems a most unlikely target for a Guatemala-style plot engineered by CIA agents and aimed at his overthrow. Yet that is precisely what Costa Rican officials claim has happened in the tiny (pop. 1,700,000) Central American republic. They do not accuse Washington of sponsoring the scheme, but they make no secret of their suspicions about some officials who happened to be working...
...royal prerogative over approximately 19,000 "wild, white and unmarked swans." That was only fitting, he said, because it "enables Her Majesty to make highly cherished gifts to foreign heads of state"-as she did in 1968 when she presented a pair of swans to then-President Arthur da Costa e Silva of Brazil. That is about the only practical use left for the beautiful bird. Once it was considered a great delicacy at the royal table, but, said the Lord Chancellor, it has been "superseded by the alien turkey...
...pace and pulse of Citizen are reminiscent of Costa-Gavras' magnificent Z. Its nearly surrealistic aspects-as in a fantasy in which his inspection-department cronies refuse to allow him to plead guilty-are rather shaky recalls of Bunuel. Indeed, the film's fundamental drawback is that Director Petri is intent on political statement: the terrors of police fascism. The inspector cries: "Repression is civilization," and such crude political commentary detracts from solid psychological drama...