Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peter Costa, director of news and public affairs, said that the Japanese are particularly interested in education. "They want to know how we teach what the students learn and what the students think of it all," he said...
...thousand copies of Bok's books were shipped to Iran in February. The books were published by a small press outside Paris that specializes in Palestinian revolutionary tracts and then shipped to Iran via international book merchants associated with the Harvard Club of Hamburg. Harvard News Office Director Peter Costa denies supressing information in the Gazette's feature on Bok's books, adding: "If we had found out about all this stuff we certainly would have asked John Shattuck whether or not we should publish...
...biologist hails the Costa Ricans for their support of the Guanacaste project. Since 1970, Costa Rica has been one of Latin America's most conservation-minded countries. It has set aside nearly 20% of its land for parks and reserves -- more than any other nation in the tropics. Janzen admits that he would not have attempted such a large-scale reclamation project anywhere else. But, he says, "I think this is the way of the future. Guanacaste is a demonstration of the fact that you can grow back a tropical forest if the community that lives around it comes...
Hall was not the only former C.M.A. member in the news. One day after Hall's arrest, Steven Carr, 27, died in the driveway of his Los Angeles condominium, presumably of a cocaine overdose. Carr was one of five mercenaries jailed in Costa Rica in 1985 for aiding the contras. Police say there is no evidence of foul play, but some people close to Carr find the death suspicious. In interviews, Carr has said that he made one arms run for the contras from Florida to El Salvador, where weapons were unloaded in the presence of U.S. military personnel. Carr...
...would you build one of fiber glass unless you wanted to cheat?" he asked at a press conference. Added Blackaller: "My engineers have told me for six years that you can't build a fiber-glass boat light and strong enough . . . under the rules." The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda of Sardinia, organizer of the challenger series, has not responded to the war of words. As a matter of normal procedure, however, it will remeasure and check all semifinalists before racing resumes after Christmas...