Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they will accept the loss of income brought about by U.S. withdrawal, or try to invade the American market. Then there is the worrisome fact that to be cultivated profitably, the opium poppy needs only a warm climate and cheap labor. Poppy plantings have recently been spotted in Costa Rica and high in the Andes in Ecuador and Peru...
Never one to back away from a fight, Costa Rica's cocky little (5 ft. 3 in.) President José Figueres Ferrer,65, last week took a very personal hand in foiling a boringly familiar contemporary crime-the hijacking of a jetliner...
...Figueres arrived at the airport, the hijackers had shown that they meant business by shooting one passenger, the son of Nicaragua's Minister of Agriculture, in the arm and abdomen. They had released the other passengers, but were holding the crew members as hostages in the plane. Costa Rica's radio stations were able to tune in on the conversation between air crew and tower, so that the entire country could hear one stewardess pleading: "For the love of God, let us go to Cuba! Otherwise, they'll kill...
...that it will use its influence-well, it's something that has big meaning. That is why we agreed to the U.S.'s playing a role. But if it turns out that the role is no more than that of a small power like Nicaragua or Costa Rica or Malawi, what's the point in receiving any American representative...
...fair features an impressive mock-up of the new four-terminal airport presently under construction between Dallas and Fort Worth. There is also a new emphasis on Texas ethnic groups (German Day, Czech Day) and a growing spirit of Pan-Americanism. Cattlemen from Argentina, Nicaragua and Costa Rica flock to the fair to buy prime breeding cattle. They are treated like visiting royalty, right down to a barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans take the 5,000-acre spread in stride, their home-grown counterparts are visibly awed. Drawls...