Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Don Costa, 57, music conductor and arranger, whose versatile professionalism was relied on by top singers of the past three decades, including Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, in concerts, radio, television and more than 240 hit records; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...chief of military counterintelligence for the Defense Ministry, but grew so disenchanted with the tactics of the government that last August he fled to join Edén Pastora Gómez, a hero of the Sandinista revolution who defected in July 1981 and is now based in neighboring Costa Rica. Guillén's parents subsequently sought refuge in the Venezuelan embassy. In an exclusive interview with Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth, Guillén detailed the secret jails, torture methods and unprosecuted murders committed by the Sandinistas, including the systematic killing of Miskito Indians...
...seeking more generous terms on future loans. Rumania late last year rescheduled $2.8 billion of its $ 11 billion debt and interest payments. Costa Rica ($3.1 billion) has told its creditors that it cannot produce $270 million in back interest. South Korea ($36 billion), despite its generally strong economy, is being closely watched. And there are others...
...arming and training the contras so they can stage raids into Nicaragua from bases in neighboring Honduras. These connections, in fact, have cost the F.D.N. the potential support of other exile leaders, most notably Edén Pastora Gómez, a former Sandinista leader who now lives in Costa Rica...
...public relations effort left many other Nicaraguan exiles unconvinced that the organization had changed. From his hilltop home overlooking the Costa Rican capital of San José, Pastora told TIME Reporter Timothy Loughran he still considered the F.D.N. bases in Honduras to be run by Somocistas, the name given the national guardsmen. Said Pastora: "It is a guard which until a short while ago was murdering us, and once it returns to Nicaragua, it will kill our young people, farmers and students...