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...Pepe'' had just finished a rousing speech in the coffee-growing town of Puriscal. about 20 miles from the capital of San José, when an aide handed him an urgent message. Figueres' old fighting spirit flared as he read that three gunmen from Nicaragua had hijacked a Nicaraguan BAC 1-11 with 40 passengers and six crew members aboard. The plane had just made an unscheduled landing at San José airport. Would the President authorize refueling it for the flight on to Havana, or providing a new plane for the trip? "To hell with this...
...hitting 110 m.p.h. on the straightaways. Over his car radio, Figueres dictated his detailed instructions for "terrorizing the terrorists," who were members of the Nicaraguan National Liberation Front. Two hundred armed civilian guardsmen should surround the plane. The runway should be blocked, the plane's tires deflated. Don Pepe repeatedly shouted into the radio, "Boys, this...
Overzealous Actions. Washington sources suggest that Figueres engineered the whole plot story to get rid of Williamson and Ploeser, a Nixon appointee. Don Pepe is, after all, an emotional man; only two weeks ago, he slapped a student for razzing...
...Washington, Williamson was ordered to make no comment on the situation. Ploeser may indeed be recalled before long-but at Foggy Bottom's pleasure, not Don Pepe's. And a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, after a closed hearing, found no evidence that the U.S. Government had "attempted to overthrow" the Figueres government, although it did cite "overzealous actions" by unnamed officials...
...floating in the policy of no policy," he said, "and a lot of guys start to freelance." To raise the profile a bit. Secretary of State William Rogers will be going to San José next month to attend the Latin American Foreign Ministers conference. For his part, Don Pepe has asked the Russians, who were scheduled to open their embassy this week, to put it off for a while...