Word: costas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Costa Rica, Mount Arenal had been quiet for nearly five centuries, its graceful cone plugged solidly with ages-old magma. Without warning one afternoon, Arenal blew a huge hole in its flank. Vaporized magma shot out at 1,472° F. and incandescent gas soared thousands of feet into the sky. Red-hot volcanic ash spread for miles across rich cattle-raising land, piling three feet deep in places. At least 78 people died, and further disaster struck searchers for the 100 or more still missing when a sudden sheet of flame engulfed a carload of rescuers, incinerating...
...effect on Costa Rica's cattle industry was catastrophic. While only 800 head of cattle died in the eruption, another 80,000 were ordered slaughtered for immediate sale and a further 100,000 had to be moved to new pasture lands. Experts estimated that if there were further intense eruptions, it might take 20 years and $50 million to restore cattle raising to its pre-eruption level. At week's end, Arenal was rumbling ominously again and a team of volcanologists went to the scene from Washington, hopeful of determining the reason for the eruption and devising methods...
...America has been largely overlooked by the presidential aspirants, but the man still in office has not forgotten it. Last week, as reassurance to the U.S.'s southern neighbors, President Johnson flew to San Salvador for a minisummit with the presidents of five Central American republics: El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Before leaving Texas, he conferred with Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos Ortuno at the L.B.J. ranch and played host to ambassadors from 20 Latin countries at San Antonio's HemisFair, itself a symbol of inter-American solidarity. The Administration hoped that the little...
...Castro Pinto, gave his permission to priests and nuns to join the anti-government marches, and the Catholic clergy issued a statement declaring that "we hold just the principal complaints of our youth." Coming from Brazil's powerful Catholic church, the two moves were serious criticism of Costa's government. Anxious to avoid further violence and disturbed by some army officers critical of government inaction, Costa finally promised to name a "work group," including students, to draft improvements in the schools...
...Costa's Cabinet, going even further, urged an immediate reform of the country's educational system, arguing, with hindsight, that all the government's plans for technological development were jeopardized by Brazil's educational deficiencies. As a measure of good intentions, Costa ordered Dutra's ""Education Ministry to hand over to universities the operating funds that had been held up during the disorders...