Word: costas
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...reach high--straight to the top, the untouchable dons of the Families. Other Italian officials had tried this sort of thing before: Cesare Terranova, a local magistrate, killed in 1970, Pio La Torre, Secretary of the Communist Party, dispatched in 1980, and the Procurator of the Republic, Gaetano Costa, slain in the same year. Dalla Chiesa stood next in the line of fire, as the only symbolic figure with the guts and skills to take on the Mafia. On September 2, he received the dossiers of several well--placed targets on his list of mobsters. The next...
...President will visit Costa Rica, Brazil and Colombia in the next five days, and face an array of economic and political problems that in many ways characterize overall U.S. Latin American relations. Both Brazil and Costa Rica owe huge debts to American bankers and the U.S. dominated International Monetary Fund. The need for American economic support will probably ensure at least one warm welcome for Reagan; as Business week has noted, "Costa Rica...guarantees Reagan a friendly reception because President Luis Monge knows that U.S. backing is the only thing standing between his country and financial default...
...Costa Gibbsboro...
Murray Silberman San Jose, Costa Rica...
...biggest threat to the Sandinistas comes from Edén Pastora Gómez, 46, a flamboyant and popular former guerrilla leader known as Commander Zero. A hero of the Sandinista revolution, Pastora fled Nicaragua a year ago and eventually surfaced in Costa Rica last April. He passionately denounces his former comrades-in-arms as "traitors and murderers" and has called on the Nicaraguan people to "expel [them] from power." For the present, Pastora's strategy is to hope that his re-emergence will lead to the defection of other unhappy Sandinista supporters, and eventually divide the army...