Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mary Costa, a resident of the flooded Bristol Arms apartment building, walked into the National Guard Armory on Concord Ave. around 10 a.m. yesterday equipped with her cribbage board, playing cards, and rosary. Costa said she would stay at the armory "as long as they can stand...
...photographs, taken in Costa Rica. EI Salvador, Peru, and Chile, capture the complexity of Latin American life in both rural and urban settings. Ginandes, who studied under master photographer Minor White, has been photographing the people and places of I Latin America since 1968 when she went to Argentina on a Harvard Summer Fellowship...
...young Costa-Rican mother holds her first child with pride-before a simple house made grand through her own decorations. An aging Gaucho upon his horse pauses, surrounded by the Argentine plains, in a moment of quiet dignity. From these photos we see that the photographer genuinely cares, and viewing these pictures...
Ginandes managed to enter the private lives of people in small towns who were unaccustomed to outsiders. She recalls sharing an afternoon with an older Costa Rican woman. Ginandes had photographed her holding a colorful parrot to the delight of a small child. As they parted, the woman said, "I will carry you forever in my heart...
...contras by 110,000 to an estimated 17,000. Well supplied with Soviet arms and equipment, the Nicaraguan army has much more mobility and firepower than the rebels. Since April the Sandinistas have kept the contras on the run, pushing them north over the Honduran border and south into Costa Rica. Last month Nicaraguan troops actually drove about three miles into Honduras and shelled Las Vegas, the base camp of the largest contra faction, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN). The contras lack even the guerrillas' traditional element of surprise: Sandinista spies have thoroughly infiltrated rebel camps...