Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when it's not clear how far the U.S. itself is going to stick its neck out." Even Australia and New Zealand refused to co-sponsor the U.S. resolution, and at week's end the dismal list of co-sponsors included only the Philippines, Chad, Colombia, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras and Swaziland. The plain fact is that unless the Japanese government changes its mind following a Cabinet meeting this week, Taipei will almost certainly be expelled when the issue reaches the blue-and-gold chamber of the General Assembly, probably no sooner than mid-October. An early test...
...considered a "Communist" by some because of his social reforms. Williamson and his wife made no effort to hide their dislike for the President-particularly after Don Pepe. having already established relations with Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, moved to exchange ambassadors with the Soviet Union as well. (Costa Rica has been selling its surplus coffee to the Russians for U.S. dollars for two years...
...Costa Rica's admirable if not entirely unblemished history of democratic government, no figure stands taller than diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.), scrappy José Figueres Ferrer, 64. At the head of a ragtag band of rebels in 1948, "Don Pepe" routed a Communist military coalition that had tried to seize power illegally. He banned the Communist party, abolished the army (Costa Rica has not had one since), instituted many social reforms and, after 18 months, restored power to the elected President. Figueres was elected to the presidency in his own right in 1953 and again last year. Educated...
There is every indication that their numbers will increase rather than decline. No elections are in sight in Brazil or Argentina, and Peru's ruling junta suggests that it may take 30 years to accomplish the reforms it has in mind. Though Venezuela, Colombia and Costa Rica remain healthy, functioning democracies, Uruguay, the erstwhile "Switzerland of Latin America," is beset by a vicious brand of urban terrorism and worsening economic problems. In neighboring Chile, the Congress is preparing to vote into power the first freely elected Marxist government in world history (see cover story...
...cent of U.S. ammunitions for Vietnam are shipped, and maintained it for 800 days despite official pressure, police harassment, and arrests. A second series of raids by federal authorities "convinced me that if I wanted to stay free I'd best stop being brave," so Bernard moved to Costa Rica, where he's organized a commune for "exiles from military dictatorships near...