Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flying to Costa Rica, Rosalynn adroitly deflected President Daniel Oduber Quiros' plea that the U.S. raise its quota on beef imports from his nation.Said she: "I could not promise anything that we could not deliver...
...mission, Rosalynn sat through 13 two-hour briefings on the area's political and economic problems. She also practiced her Spanish; she knows no Portuguese, the language of the biggest country she will visit ?Brazil. Mrs. Carter's itinerary takes her to four democracies (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia) and three military dictatorships (Brazil, Peru and Ecuador) but skips such "southern cone" countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, all run by rightist juntas. Whatever importance different regimes attach to her visit, she seems assured of a cordial welcome wherever she goes and a downright affectionate...
...made their own tally of nations for which no major violations were reported: of the 82 countries that now receive U.S. aid, human rights seem to be alive and well in only 23, barely one-quarter of the total. The 23 states: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Greece, Israel (except the occupied territories), Italy, Japan, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland), Venezuela and West Germany...
...novels were first published in Poland in 1971, but one is set in the Rocky Mountains, and the other starts in the Costa Rica Hilton and moves to Manhattan. Lem is an Eastern European but his mind wanders in an American technological wilderness, and the paranoia he evokes is at home under the shadow of the Science Center. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub starts where a comfortable narrative would already be well into the body of its tale. The narrator is in some indefinite Pentagon Three, buried deep within the Rocky Mountains. Pentagon Three, with thousands of offices, miles...
Abroad, Van Haefton has had to learn to measure in carres in Costa Rica and manzanas in Colombia. Harder yet is researching property deeds to make sure that the land's seller is also its legal owner. But now that Van Haefton knows foreign realty, he plans to appeal to foreign buyers. He hopes eventually to open a branch office in Europe. What German industrialists, Greek shipowners and perhaps oil sheiks want, he believes, might just be a trout farm nestling in California's Lassen National Forest, a fly-in ranch in lush green Montana or a splendid...