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Article: Costa Rican to Bring Peace Crusade to Washington
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- The Washington Post
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- September 22, 1987
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This country's forceful young president, who will meet in
Washington Tuesday with President Reagan, is doing what no other
Central American leader has been able to do since the Reagan
administration began financing the counterrevolutionary war against
Nicaragua's leftist government in 1981.
To the chagrin of many administration officials, 46-year-old
President Oscar Arias has staked out a position opposing both the
Sandinista government in Managua and the U.S.-backed rebels fighting
them, and he has drawn all the region's other governments toward that
position.
Arias is the principal author of a Central American peace plan
signed in Guatemala on Aug. 7 by all five Central American ...