Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact-finding commission of the Organization of American States flew back to Washington last week with a locker full of documents and depositions. Then, after six hours, the O.A.S. Council announced its findings on the invasion of Costa Rica from Nicaragua (TIME...
Both countries, the council found, were guilty of disturbing the peace: Nicaragua for helping Costa Rican exiles launch the abortive invasion; Costa Rica for harboring the international Caribbean Legion, dedicated to the overthrow of dictatorial regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. The two quarreling neighbors were warned to be on their best behavior; for good measure, the council ordered a five-man military mission to oversee the troubled frontier...
Unquestionably the council could take credit for snuffing the fuse to an explosive situation-though next day a new fuse sputtered briefly. On Christmas night a band of machine-gunning raiders slashed into tiny Puerto Soley, on Costa Rica's Pacific shore, shot up the town, set it afire, then scuttled back to Nicaragua...
...States (see above) got a gala welcome in San José and was studying evidence that the attack had been staged with help from Nicaragua. In Managua, "Tacho" Somoza scoffed at the charges, awaited his chance to tell about the illegal activities of the Caribbean Legion sheltered in Costa Rica...
Happy Jeep. Wearing his "lucky boots" and a silver-mounted .45 automatic, Costa Rica's Provisional President José Figueres jeeped happily around inspecting his outpost troops. With him rode President-elect Otilio Ulate. The foreign threat had given Figueres' faltering junta a popularity unknown since last spring's civil...