Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prior to his U.S. visit, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez spoke to TIME Correspondent John Moody about the Sandinistas, the contras and his peace plan. Excerpts...
...Communist takeover in his country. The day will come when, thanks to the Sandinistas, it will be easier to find a giraffe, a hippopotamus or an elephant here than a member of the Costa Rican Communist Party...
...Sunday morning, the bakers work in ankle-deep drifts of cornmeal, wielding wooden peel sticks to retrieve loaves six at a time from the back corners of the ovens. The crew is polyglot and pan-ethnic. Yolanda, a Puerto Rican, says she is a "born-again Italian." When Carlos, who is tending the 260 loaves in the brick oven, is asked where he comes from, he looks blank. Johnnie-Mo, a bona fide Italian American who grew up around the corner, comes over to translate. He puts his face close, concentrates, then shouts, "Town! In Peru! Newark, Elizabeth, Kearny! Your...
Tambs also testified that he negotiated with Costa Rican officials for construction of the Santa Elena airstrip in the northern part of the country for use by North's private airlift supporting the Nicaraguan rebels...
...plunged into the world of exotic- swimming-pool and -pond design. Now he is a leading creator of aquatic fantasies, with about 200 projects to his credit. Among them: a $3 million pool masquerading as a river that flows for the equivalent of six city blocks at a Puerto Rican resort. At Washington's Grand Hyatt Hotel, Fields is working on a $1 million, 3,000-sq.-ft. lake that will feature hundreds of live koi fish, 100-ft. waterfalls and a piano perched on an artificial island...