Word: costas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...National Children's Hospital. As he pinched the cheeks and tousled the hair of one young boy, the mother began to moan softly , "Touch my son, touch my son." But the Pope would see more of the ravages of suffering once his trip took him out of relatively stable Costa Rica...
...joint committees that included local bishops and Sandinista leaders. There were other signs on the eve of the Pope's arrival that the government felt it could only benefit from a successful visit. State-controlled television provided full and uncensored coverage of John Paul's stay in Costa Rica. Workers were given an extended weekend to give them time to see the Pope. Even the Sandinista workers' headquarters in downtown Managua was draped with a red-and-black banner welcoming John Paul with "revolutionary...
...Central American pilgrimage, John Paul offered his personal presence, his example, his courage. His words were those of comfort, hope, peace ? and on occasion rebuke. Some received his message with joy. Others rejected it with bitterness. But all, if only for a moment, stopped to listen. Said Costa Rican Archbishop Roman Arrieta Villalobos: "I think the word of the Pope is something indescribable, a force that I cannot explain in human terms. He is a man without armed legions, without cannons or machine guns. His force is the truth...
...Pope John Paul II touched down in Costa Rica last week, attention in Rome was distracted by new developments related to one of the darkest hours of the Pontiffs reign. Ever since the 1981 assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square, suspicion has grown that the convicted Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, took his orders from Bulgarian agents, who in turn might have been acting with the knowledge of the Soviet Union. To date, Italian investigators have arrested one Bulgarian official in Rome for alleged complicity in the plot, and accused two others. Now Italian officials have begun examining...
...believe that the government of El Salvador is on the front line in a battle that is really aimed at the very heart of the Western Hemisphere, and eventually at us," he told an audience at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club. "If El Salvador should fall, I think Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama - all of those would follow...