Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close to the Costa Rican frontier, 100 Costa Rican exiles and Nicaraguans were getting small-arms training. Last fortnight a like group staged a practice patrol across the border. Figueres forces shot them up, captured some Nicaraguans bearing Sten guns which had been shipped in by Trujillo...
...Costa Rican exiles were so keen on fighting their way home. Wailed ex-President Teodoro Picado, now in Managua on a $300-a-month job as adviser to Nicaragua's Finance Ministry: "I ask only the privilege of returning home in peace. God, all Central America is a madhouse, each man accusing his neighbor...
...York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, in & around the Caribbean on vacation, got the key to San Juan from its lady mayor and a thumping, flag-waving welcome from the Puerto Ricans. To Dominicans later he confessed that some well-meant shouts of the Puerto Rican populace had been: "Viva O'Guardia...
...Costa Rican Embassy in Washington one night last week, the telephone rang. Sleek, young (24) First Secretary Alvaro Rossi answered...
Actually, the photograph very nearly failed to reach TIME'S Costa Rican readers. The censors held all copies of the April 5 issue at San Jose's airport and they were released only after TIME Inc.'s Central American correspondent, Jerry Hannifin, had protested successfully to the Government. Thereafter hundreds of reproductions of the picture and caption began to appear. They are still selling throughout Costa Rica for about 22? apiece. For many Costa Ricans, who framed the picture and hung it in their homes, it was the first time they had seen a photograph of Figueres...