Word: costas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly every other country has at least one lady Deputy. Do they quietly defer to the menfolk? Certainly not. Colombia's ex-Senator Esmeralda Arboleda de Uribe, who has a TV show called Controversia in Bogotá, grills political leaders on the country's touchiest issues. Costa Rica's Maria de Chittenden, 45, is a great believer in womanly wiles. She is easily the prettiest Ambassador to London's Court of St. James's, and says: "The one rule is that you mustn't criticize what men have done in the past. You must...
Learning Means Earning. Limiting itself to Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, the C.E.D. gave them high marks for forming a common market in 1960. "Central America has one of the most advanced movements towards economic integration to be found anywhere in the less developed world," noted the report. From 1950 to 1962 the gross national product in each country increased an average 4.5% each year: exports went up an average annual...
Although things are moving, they aren't moving fast enough. Top priority should be given to education. "The only country to approximate the U.S. in the percentage of GNP earmarked for education is Costa Rica," says the C.E.D., with the result that "it has the largest per capita GNP of the region." Education should be pushed particularly on the primary levels. Employers should initiate on-job training programs, a practice not widely enough spread...
...decided upon and a final treaty written, construction will get underway. If possible, the U.S. would like to use nuclear explosives to dig the trench. Nukes are faster than dynamite, run one-tenth the cost, and would hold the price for the Colombia canal to $1.2 billion, the Nicaragua-Costa Rica canal to $1.24 billion, or the southern Panama route to $500 million...
...those negotiations go may well determine the shape of the treaties for a new canal-and whether or not the U.S. decides to build in Panama. Both Costa Rica and Colombia reacted enthusiastically to the prospect of a canal on their territory. No one seems to understand that better than Panama's recently inaugurated President Marcos Robles. On TV last week, he told his people of President Johnson's "transcendental" announcement and "the happy prospects on this historic day for our nation...