Word: costas
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...presidency. Last week's vote sent a message of U.S. resolve not only to the contras, who have suffered some supply shortages but have managed to remain largely intact during the cutoff (see box). The congressional turnabout also reassured other governments in the region, notably those of Honduras and Costa Rica, from whose territory the rebels stage their forays into Nicaragua. Finally, the showdown over the contras vindicated Reagan's strategy of legislative persistence, a political trademark sometimes dismissed by his critics as merely a streak of Irish stubbornness...
...press its attacks on contra bases along Nicaragua's borders in some of the most intense fighting of the more than three-year conflict. Government troops drove the rebels from all of their camps along the San Juan River, which forms part of the country's southern border with Costa Rica. Sandinista bombers then pounded guerrilla communications installations and supply centers for five days...
...past, Sandinista forces usually avoided crossing borders when chasing the rebels, who have been operating from base camps in both Honduras and Costa Rica. But now they seem to have little concern for such formalities. "We are going to keep on destroying the contras," Ortega told workers during a visit to a textile factory Tuesday night, "even though we know that the U.S. will try to take advantage of these confrontations to create greater tensions between us and Honduras and Costa Rica." By crossing the borders in "hot pursuit" of the contras, Nicaraguan soldiers could create a pretext for greater...
...Already Costa Rica has downgraded diplomatic relations with Nicaragua over recent border incidents. Two of its civil guardsmen were killed in an ambush that it blames on the Nicaraguan army; Managua denies responsibility. In addition, a 40-man Costa Rican patrol that went to retrieve one of the bodies was shelled from Nicaraguan territory, even though Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto had been advised of the operation and had promised no interference...
...Reagan Administration was also under fire from many Costa Ricans, including several Legislative Assembly deputies, who are incensed that 21 U.S. military trainers recently arrived to instruct 750 civil guardsmen. Both U.S. and Costa Rican officials say that the three-month program is nothing more than routine police training, and insist that Costa Rica's neutral status (the country has no armed forces) will not be affected. But many in Costa Rica fear that the U.S. presence might signal the first step toward forming an army...