Word: costas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word in Latin America, and memories of the Marine occupation of Haiti from 1915-34 are still fresh. In Washington Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, left a State Department briefing on Haiti, fuming at the OAS's "apathy" and lack of "determination." Costa Rica's Gonzalo J. Facio, chairman of the OAS Council, could only answer: "The organization has no power to take action when there is not an international conflict...
...Duvalier persisted into his unconstitutional second term, Venezuela and Costa Rica broke diplomatic relations. The U.S., in an odd neither-this-nor-that diplomatic maneuver, "suspended contacts" with Haiti. Ambassador Raymond L. Thurston was ordered to remain in Port-au-Prince, but to have absolutely no conversation with Duvalier's government. Along with about 200 other U.S. dependents, Ambassador Thurston's wife was sent home. Duvalier was still in power, but his security remained precarious. Ready to move in if things got out of hand, a U.S. task force, headed by the helicopter carrier Boxer with a reinforced...
...group of Costa Rican businessmen who are building the country's first cement plant...
Jose Figueres, former president of Costa Rica, will teach an upper level Soc Sci course on recent political developments in South America, Finley said. In addition, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, will once again present his economic development Soc Sci class. Galbraith returns to the University this fall after taking a two year leave of absence to be Ambassador to India...
...Costa Rica...