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...which Costa Rica will have to pay a price. In the past two years the country has become a home for the 3,500 anti-Sandinista contras of the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE) and, in the process, a target for Nicaraguan reprisals. Just three months ago, after ARDE Chief Eden Pastora Gomez used his Costa Rican base to launch a 36-hour attack on the Nicaraguan port town of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua struck back by firing 60 rockets at the Costa Rican border settlement of Poco Sol. Not long before the Sandinistas began assaulting the border town...
...days earlier, an assassination attempt had rocked one of the less successful pillars of U.S. policy in Central America. Eden Pastora Gómez, the redoubtable leader of one flank of the CIA-sponsored contras, had invited about 15 reporters to his headquarters inside Nicaragua. The group was driven from San Jose, the Costa Rican capital, to the San Juan River, which serves as the border between the two countries. There the reporters climbed into two long dugouts with outboard motors and chugged up the river for two hours, until they reached a two-story wooden building. Ushered...
...time. It is impossible not to care a little about the man who could make such an observation, just as it is difficult not to be fond of someone who, in the middle of a furious brawl with his brother, could observe, "This is just like East of Eden." But Wired, so full of details, is so short on insight that Belushi never becomes any larger or more understandable than a gifted guy who pigged out on success. That might have satisfied Sergeant Joe Friday, but it is not enough for a book. Belushi haunted the night, always wanting...
...Eden, the site of the original revolution, Adam and Eve found it was the same old tale when they turned over a new leaf. Boring...
...assault column stormed into the settlement of San Juan del Norte, a remote Nicaraguan village of some 950 people that once served as a haven for the 17th century British pirate Henry Morgan. The attackers were part of the 4,000-member Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (A.R.D.E.), whose leader is Eden Pastora Gomez, a famed defector from the ranks of Nicaragua's Sandinista government. A.R.D.E.'S objective in seizing the settlement was twofold: to secure a toehold on the jungle fringes of Nicaraguan territory as the first step toward winning international recognition as a contra provisional government...