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Prior to his U.S. visit, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez spoke to TIME Correspondent John Moody about the Sandinistas, the contras and his peace plan. Excerpts...
...foregoing were not true, the idea that a superpower does not act except in conjunction with allies has become the disease of American foreign policy. Central America is without a doubt a vital American interest, but, we hear, America must not act unless Contadora or the OAS or Costa Rica -- a country with no army -- leads the way. Since it is impossible to imagine that weak countries will go where a superpower fears to tread, this requirement of allied support is a guarantee of American inaction. This is isolationism disguised as multilateralism. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what superpower...
There has also been little progress in developing AIDS drugs that interfere with viral reproduction. The only drug approved by the FDA is azidothymidine, or AZT. An experimental drug, ribavirin, made by ICN Pharmaceuticals of Costa Mesa, Calif., seems to be less effective than had been claimed. Dr. Andrew , Vernon, a member of a study group at Johns Hopkins University, reported that in a 28-week experiment, 217 male pre-AIDS patients who took ribavirin showed no significant benefits...
Another witness who can expect an uncomfortable turn in the spotlight this week is Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, whose role in directing American assistance to the contras was spelled out by Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica from July 1985 to January 1987. Tambs repeated what he had previously told the Tower commission: North had asked him to open a southern front against Nicaragua's Sandinistas. The orders came from a three- man "restricted interagency group," chaired by Abrams, that included North and Alan Fiers, chief of the CIA's Central American task force...
Tambs worked through a CIA agent (called Tomas Castillo but identified as Joe Fernandez) in his embassy to get Costa Rica to approve construction of a secret airstrip near the Nicaraguan border and persuade contras to move deeply into Nicaragua. The Ambassador insisted that Abrams "knew just as much as I did" about the southern-front activities. Abrams has denied to congressional committees that he knew of any such details. Fernandez, who was placed on administrative leave by the CIA late last year because of his contra involvement, told the committee in closed testimony that his superiors, including Fiers, knew...