Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invaders from justifying an assault on the grounds of rescuing citizens. During a visit to Panama for talks with President Ricardo de la Espriella, Nicaraguan Junta Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra laid out a number of possible scenarios for an invasion, including an incursion by rebels based in Honduras or Costa Rica...
...corruption and brutality. And yet Under Fire is able to transcend a doctrinaire manifesto for the Revolution, and instead presents simply a reasoned appeal for common sense. In a word, the movie is believable, and the case made for the Sandinistas is more convincing than, say a heavy-handed Costa-Gavras would have us believe in his black and white world. It may not play to the rabid right-winger, but it probably would play in Pooria...
Speaking through an interpreter, Gerando Contreras, a representative of 17 youth organizations in Costa Rica, said he hoped to encourage the formation of an organization in the U.S. roughly parallel to MUJECA...
...three, from E1 Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, also participated in a demonstration Sunday in Boston against the U.S. invasion of Grenada...
...House, voting 227 to 194, passed an amendment to the intelligence bill that would prohibit further funding of the disparate terrorist groups fighting against Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. The Administration wanted $50 million for the several small armies based in border areas of Honduras and Costa Rica. In a letter to O'Neill, Secretary Shultz pleaded for continued funding, arguing that regular attacks by the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas in Nicaragua provide essential pressure on the Sandinistas to cut back their support of Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador...