Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone welcomed Bermudez into the rebels' top political ranks. One Assembly delegate, in voting against Bermudez, scrawled "No military dictatorships" across his ballot. Seven regional commanders of the contras' southern front, which operates near the border with Costa Rica, announced they were pulling out of the Resistance. In a bitterly worded communique, they said, "The struggle against the Managua dictatorship is ill served by placing in the highest military command of the insurgency an ex-colonel of the hated Somocista National Guard...
...more galled by Managua's actions than Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, whose peace plan remains the framework for the now suspended Sandinista-contra talks. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Arias passed word to Managua last Monday that he believed the contras could again be brought to the negotiating table by Aug. 1 if the Sandinistas would make a conciliatory gesture. Back came the message that Arias' idea was a good one. Two hours later, however, the Sandinistas closed La Prensa and Radio Catolica and expelled Melton...
...Ways and Means Committee, will go almost anywhere golf is played. He gave 51 speeches last year; along the way he played in three celebrity golf tournaments, including the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. For leading two discussions on "handling stress," Speaker Wright was a guest at California's La Costa Hotel & Spa last August...
...said they would liquidate the two ailing S and Ls, a drastic step for institutions so large. The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp., which guarantees thrift deposits, will spend a record $1.35 billion in cash to pay off insured depositors (up to $100,000 for each account) of Costa Mesa's North America Savings and Loan Association and the American Diversified Savings Bank. The payout, which temporarily slashes the federal insurance fund's cash balance by 40%, to $1.9 billion, is likely to heighten the debate over the adequacy of the FSLIC's resources to deal with the troubled...
Upon introducing Arias, Allison related the Costa Rican president's political philosophy to what he said was his favorite quotation from former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy...