Word: rican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November 16 slayings of the previously untouchable Jesuits, their live-in cook and her daughter came at a pivotal time for the region, which had been nearing an international settlement mediated by Costa Rican leader Oscar Arias...
Although SA-7s can be obtained in arms bazaars around the world, there was little doubt that the weapons were shipped from Nicaragua. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez firmly backed Cristiani in blaming Ortega, who did not even bother to deny the charge. Instead, Ortega noted the many flights that originated from San Salvador's Ilopango airport to ferry weapons to the contras fighting his government. "So what's the scandal?" he asked...
...firsthand. The 40-ft. leafy cathedral that vaulted over the roads is now open to the sun, and once lush reaches of forest are bare, broken and brown. In the hardest-hit areas, 60% of the hardwood trees are gone, including huge mahoganies, and many of the rare Puerto Rican parrots have disappeared...
...fund a rebel army and enforce a trade embargo against Nicaragua. We pay Honduras to house the Contras. We even send money to right-wing think tanks in Costa Rica in an attempt to destabilize the regional negotiations of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
...message and sometimes the meaning, the outcome can be critical. Bush vs. Ortega is not a World Series, but it is a ( measure of Bush's response to a defiant bush leaguer. "Not a relaxed setting," Bush told TIME last week, recalling the encounter at the Costa Rican summit on democracy. "But I was not going back to refusing to shake somebody's hand." He was harking back to 1954, when Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles ignored the outstretched hand of Chou En-lai in Geneva, humiliating the Chinese Premier and further complicating the dismal relations...