Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target of Democratic affections, the man to whom Wright would most like to assign the conduct of U.S. policy in Central America, is Costa Rican President Arias. He has become the authority for what is right and what is not. With his Nobel aura, Arias has taken on the aspect of a man who has transcended mere politics and national interest...
...term, when his influence will be minimal. "If Congress votes down aid this time," Reagan warned last week, "the decision may well be irrevocable." If the vote is yes, it may kill the Central American peace plan that has won a Nobel Prize for Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez but that is quickly running out of deadlines. Says Republican Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois: "It's going to be a very emotional, very bloody debate...
...representatives of the Sandinistas and the contras verbally assaulted each other in San Jose last week, the Costa Rican capital was also the site of a landmark case being tried by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. On trial is the government of Honduras, which has been charged with "integral responsibility" in the disappearance and presumed murder of an unspecified number of its citizens by army death squads. Though the evidence presented at the proceedings deals specifically with the disappearance of four people in the early 1980s, no individuals are on trial; rather, the court is attempting to determine...
...Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, it was a moment of truth. He had won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize with a plan to end the violent political struggles that have long plagued Central America. But his five-month-old blueprint, far from halting the region's civil wars, had not even kept the combatants at the bargaining table. "The will for peace does not exist right now," conceded Arias before meeting last week with the four other Central American Presidents who had originally endorsed his plan in Guatemala City. "In 150 days, we have not been able to advance...
...against that discouraging backdrop that the leaders of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua met with Arias near the Costa Rican capital of San Jose last week to assess the progress of the peace plan. Originally expected to begin and end Friday, the meeting dragged into the next day as the leaders bargained and bickered over a round table. Arias' frustration surfaced Saturday after a morning swim before the session resumed. Said the dejected summit host: "I did everything I could. We all knew that if we failed to come to an agreement, the war would continue." Before...