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Costa Rica is Central America's stablest democracy. It does not have an army: that institution was abolished in 1949, and order is maintained largely by 7,000 lightly armed civil and rural guardsmen. The country's 1982 per capita income of $1,164 is the second highest, after Panama, in Central America, and its society is largely lacking in the unhealthy extremes of wealth and poverty that afflict Guatemala and El Salvador...
...anchorman from the CBS Evening News goes the man who more than anyone else has shaped and given stature to the role. In the fickle high-risk arena of television, where admiration swiftly changes to boredom or dislike, Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," has been the stablest on-screen presence of them all. His departure is forcing a restudy, at all three networks, of the job itself...
...54th birthday at his home near Lake Como when a congratulatory letter arrived from his brother, Switzerland's Ambassador to Brazil. Life in Rio, wrote Giovanni Enrico Bucher, 57, a suave, popular bachelor, was "pleasant and uneventful." One day, he predicted, Brazil would be one of the "stablest nations of Latin America." One day, perhaps, but not just yet. Moments after Rudi Bucher finished reading the letter, he heard that his brother had been kidnaped by urban guerrillas...
Americans are among the world's most volatile and law-breaking people, yet their government is one of the stablest. For nearly three centuries, this paradox has puzzled the world and, especially in the past few strife-torn years, America itself. Last week a group of historians, social scientists and lawyers told the nation what many Americans had al ready suspected: "We have become a rather bloody-minded people in both action and reaction...
...capita income is up 16% to an annual rate of $365, which may not sound like much but is dramatic in view of the country's past poverty. Though the budget will be $30 million in the red this year, the sol is one of the stablest currencies in Latin America...