Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regarded as a pioneer by the other paddlers: Sheila Conover, 21, a Californian and sometime student at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., the most gifted natural athlete on the squad; Shirley Dery, 22, born in the U.S. of Hungarian parents, who trained until last year with the powerful Hungarian team; and Leslie Klein, 29, from Concord, Mass., another kayak gypsy who converted from white-water kayaking. Klein spent years "living out of a car in soaking wet clothes, eating gritty oatmeal." Her life is somewhat more conventional now; she is married to J.T. Kearney, a phys-ed professor...
...eight other teams--West Germany, Morocco, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Egypt, the United States, and Costa Rica--will play all of their games on the west coast, either at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena or at Stanford University in Palo Alto...
...seemed hardly coincidental to Costa Ricans that the road could serve to ferry troops and materiel northward in the event of an attack by Nicaragua. They were nonetheless willing to accept the offer until Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle injudiciously announced that hundreds of military personnel would be responsible for the project and that their presence "would be the first such joint exercises in Costa Rica." With a menacing Nicaragua urging it to remain on the side lines, Costa Rica began backing away from the road project, then canceled it. Two months ago, 30,000 Costa Ricans flocked into...
...Costa Rica's dilemma is partly of its own making. Its pacific tradition has long made it a haven for exiles of all political stripes: it now houses some 16,000 refugees from El Salvador, 10,000 of them un registered. It is home to 3,500 exiles from the Sandinista regime, though just five years ago it allowed free rein to Sandinista rebels fighting to bring down Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle...
...final analysis, neither Costa Rica nor Honduras will be satisfied with its military situation until it has made progress with its social and economic woes. And until Washington appreciates this, the U.S. is unlikely to be fully welcomed or trusted in either land...