Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduled for Sunday, he planned to deliver a final hortatory salvo to promote his presidential candidate-but no relation-General António Soares Carneiro. With the Prime Minister, in the twin-engine Cessna C-421, were his longtime companion, Danish-born Snu Abecassis; Defense Minister Adeline Amaro da Costa and his wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered a wing and dropped in flames to the street. All aboard were killed. Sá Carneiro's own Social Democratic Party was quick to dismiss...
Defense Adeline Amaro da Costa; in Lisbon (see WORLD...
...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...
...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...