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...Nicaraguan reprisals. Just three months ago, after ARDE Chief Eden Pastora Gomez used his Costa Rican base to launch a 36-hour attack on the Nicaraguan port town of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua struck back by firing 60 rockets at the Costa Rican border settlement of Poco Sol. Not long before the Sandinistas began assaulting the border town of Peñas Blancas, Costa Rican President Monge sent an urgent message to Washington asking that a shipment of $7.85 million in promised military aid be sent posthaste...
...page report that "the roots of insecurity in the hemisphere and particularly in Central America are primarily economic, social and political." The solutions, it added, "lie in economic and social development and political dialogue, not in more weapons and military advisers." The study, prepared under the direction of Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, encouraged direct negotiations between the government and guerrillas in El Salvador. It also urged the U.S. to stop supporting the contras who are fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government...
...Reagan Administration and European allies endorse it; so do the Soviet Union, Cuba and Nicaragua's Sandinistas. Congressional and other critics of U.S. policy regularly pillory the Administration for not paying enough attention to Contadora. U.S. backing for Contadora, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States Sol Linowitz charged last week, was merely "lip service...
...copper and lead exports. Belaúnde further undermined the economy by borrowing excessively from other countries and failing to curb money-losing state enterprises. The gross domestic product declined 12% last year, the worst performance in Latin America. Inflation hit 125%, unemployment 8.3% and underemployment 51%. The Peruvian sol declined 130% against the dollar during 1983. The country's foreign debt is $13 billion, about two-thirds of its gross domestic production. Belaúnde put Peru on the austerity program in 1982, but so far he has resisted pressure from the International Monetary Fund for a major...
Down at Costa del Sol, you can find very American-style condos, with beach rights and golf courses and tennis courts...