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With that sort of record, Pepe Figueres seems a most unlikely target for a Guatemala-style plot engineered by CIA agents and aimed at his overthrow. Yet that is precisely what Costa Rican officials claim has happened in the tiny (pop. 1,700,000) Central American republic. They do not accuse Washington of sponsoring the scheme, but they make no secret of their suspicions about some officials who happened to be working...
Last October the Costa Rican government received intelligence reports that Williamson was actively abetting a right-wing antigovernment plot. The State Department was asked to quietly arrange his transfer. Nothing was done...
...Similarly, towards the end of the evening, Walzer was able to defuse a questioner who tried to bring up the question of support to Israel. With a strong pro-Israel record, Walzer had the moral authority to say that the question was irrelevant that night. But when a Puerto Rican representative read a 10-minute statement discussing liberation efforts on his island, Walzer had no way to stop him. For a while he stood silent as the Puerto Rican talked. his statement and the man said no, Walzer looked up at the crowd. "Let him speak" was the shout...
Unofficial speakers at the end of the meeting included representatives of SDS, PL, a Puerto Rican liberation group, and the Young Socialist Alliance...
...Arcy thought that students from Boston had circulated in and out of the school, and added to the tension generated by the attack of two Puerto Rican students by bands of black students earlier in the week...