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...imposing figure at 6 ft. 2 in. and 180 Ibs., Vann is a former high school basketball star, Marine sergeant and teacher in the Brooklyn public schools. He has become a power in the state assembly, heading the influential black and Puerto Rican caucus. A lifetime in Brooklyn has taught Vann the value of step-by-step organization. He is in no rush. The numbers, he says, are on his side...
...week earlier, even as the Costa Rican government was making preparations for last Saturday's failed meeting, the four Nicaraguan dissidents had announced in San José an "initiative" to try to end the civil war in their own country. The offer was significant because all four are prominent Nicaraguans who had been active in the insurrection against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, were once colleagues of the Sandinistas and today live in exile. The men are Arturo Cruz, the former junta member and Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington who quit in November 1981; Alfredo César, who like Cruz...
...Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez, 57, was inaugurating a new agricultural reform project last week at the village of Cipreses outside San José. He was in the midst of his speech when the ground began to shake. In a matter of minutes, the earthquake was over and Monge finished his remarks. Afterward, climbing behind the wheel of a white Landcruiser, he smiled and cracked, "I speak and the earth moves, yet my opponents say I lack charisma...
...political earthquakes that Monge has had to worry about most since assuming office a little more than a year ago. Like Honduras, Costa Rica feels particularly threatened by Central America's growing militarization and ideological polarization. Monge and other Costa Rican officials must be especially careful not to appear too much in the pocket of Uncle Sam. Monge stresses what might be called the liberal critique of the Central American crisis. As he told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott last week: "For decades there has been repression of the people of Central America by oligarchs. This has created...
...result of that change in attitude, Costa Rica has become a haven for refugees from the Sandinista regime, a role that has not gone unnoticed in Nicaragua. In recent weeks, Sandinista-inspired agents have been arming and instigating Costa Rican squatters to take over land in the area of Guápiles, 25 miles northeast of San José, the capital. A Sandinista agent two weeks ago tried to plant a bomb in the Costa Rican headquarters of a Nicaraguan dissident group. The device exploded prematurely, killing the agent...