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...addition to the new Middle East program, which will bring social workers from Israel and several Arabic nations to Harvard for the year, the Kennedy School recently announced a Costa Rican fellowship program named in honor of Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias and several other programs which will allow Eastern Europeans and Israelis to study here...
...summer. The nine-year-old, nonprofit flying service, which operates on a budget of about $200,000 a year, has tracked radio-collared wolves in Montana and rare porpoises in the Sea of Cortes. Last winter Stewartt and Volunteer Pilot Jerry Hoogerwerf flew for several weeks over the Costa Rican rain forest and discovered and helped stop illegal gold mining and logging near a park on the Osa Peninsula...
Never mind that the United States did not initiate the peace talks of the five Central American nations. That honor went to the Oscar Arias-Sanchez and the Costa Rican government. Instead, the Reagan Administration believes that peace can be achieved only through the funding of more weapons. The peace it really looks for is an end to Ortega...
...suffering from inoperable stomach cancer, the Salvadoran President has ignored physicians' orders to limit his work load to three hours a day; he routinely puts in seven or more. Last week he addressed the National Assembly, met with church and business leaders, and conferred with visiting Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. This week Duarte will return to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to undergo chemotherapy, but he wants to be in El Salvador when the end comes. Says a close adviser: "He knows this is the final stage of his life. But rather than rest, he prefers...
...more galled by Managua's actions than Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, whose peace plan remains the framework for the now suspended Sandinista-contra talks. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Arias passed word to Managua last Monday that he believed the contras could again be brought to the negotiating table by Aug. 1 if the Sandinistas would make a conciliatory gesture. Back came the message that Arias' idea was a good one. Two hours later, however, the Sandinistas closed La Prensa and Radio Catolica and expelled Melton...