Word: costas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prior to his U.S. visit, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez spoke to TIME Correspondent John Moody about the Sandinistas, the contras and his peace plan. Excerpts...
...effect on Costa Rica. We have 150,000 Nicaraguans living with us. We must provide them with jobs, education, health care. From that point of view, it's urgent to end this...
...Communist takeover in his country. The day will come when, thanks to the Sandinistas, it will be easier to find a giraffe, a hippopotamus or an elephant here than a member of the Costa Rican Communist Party...
...diplomacy in the region, the peace initiative appeared to collapse. Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, Washington's closest ally in Central America, demanded a postponement of the meeting. Meanwhile, President Reagan held a hastily arranged, one-hour session at the White House with the author of the peace plan, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. After the meeting, the White House noted that Reagan had "concerns" about details of the proposal, while Arias stated that there had been agreement "on the end . . . but not the means...
...foregoing were not true, the idea that a superpower does not act except in conjunction with allies has become the disease of American foreign policy. Central America is without a doubt a vital American interest, but, we hear, America must not act unless Contadora or the OAS or Costa Rica -- a country with no army -- leads the way. Since it is impossible to imagine that weak countries will go where a superpower fears to tread, this requirement of allied support is a guarantee of American inaction. This is isolationism disguised as multilateralism. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what superpower...