Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Rolf Nygren, 47, and Jasvir $ Singh, 36, as they returned a rental car in Halifax. Meanwhile, a Canadian Forces patrol boat, alerted by a Coast Guard spotter plane, overtook and stopped the 497-ton Amelie, a Chilean-registered ship flying the Costa Rican flag that had secretly left the Dutch port of Rotterdam in late June. Canadian authorities were uncertain whether the immigrants, who paid from $1,200 to $2,500 in Canadian funds for the trip, boarded the ship in the Dutch port or were picked up en route. What they did learn...
...effect on Costa Rica. We have 150,000 Nicaraguans living with us. We must provide them with jobs, education, health care. From that point of view, it's urgent to end this...
...Communist takeover in his country. The day will come when, thanks to the Sandinistas, it will be easier to find a giraffe, a hippopotamus or an elephant here than a member of the Costa Rican Communist Party...
...diplomacy in the region, the peace initiative appeared to collapse. Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, Washington's closest ally in Central America, demanded a postponement of the meeting. Meanwhile, President Reagan held a hastily arranged, one-hour session at the White House with the author of the peace plan, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. After the meeting, the White House noted that Reagan had "concerns" about details of the proposal, while Arias stated that there had been agreement "on the end . . . but not the means...
...concerns hamper a Central American peace plan. -- An interview with Costa Rica' s President Arias. -- Another Beirut kidnaping...