What can Arias deliver?
Fuerst, J.S.
Today, it is possible for a Catholic to speak of taking an active to; then why is there a question as to your religion?" To win part is socialist society without being considered naive,...
...GENERATION A task that cannot wait ,; : .p EDMUNDS...
...Arias was Minister of His program for cooperatives is a long-time, long-term Economic Planning under several presidents, the general sec- interest...
...It fomented strikes that had apparently the Central American conflict...
...She was cooking on an open fire...
...Her home was no hoping to make an impact, through our film, on others...
...importance is the development of new jobs in rural areas In the area of foreign policy, notably Nicaragua, Arias is through innovations in industry and agriculture...
...His past orientation as well as base from which contra forces might operate against current statements left no doubt that he would steer clear of Nicaragua...
...immediately, certainly in our administration...
...tives was not accomplished, however, even through the last In the area of general economic policy, Arias made it clear years of Monge's incumbency, largely because the AID proto me he stands for greater equalization of income by increas- gram of the U.S., which provides a $200 million subsidy annually, bitterly opposes any significant transfer of stateJ.S...
...He was more policy...
...He accompanies this push for grass-roots participation with support for far greater OFFER FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS ONLY COMMONWEAL, 232 Madison Ave...
...The PLN has wanted to transfer the bulk of them, since election of a strong, able liberal from the social democratic 1981, to cooperative sponsorship...
...It's a risky business," he told me...
...We all want to see things happen for the workers and farmers...
...altogether happy with these enterprises...
...One boy was lame, and one girl had a broken arm...
...Our greatest viewed Arias three times in the last five years, most recently problem is over-expectation...
...the world ($1,800 per person), with the withdrawal of AID When I talked to him in October 1985 in the middle of the funds and other support...
...FUERST is a professor of social welfare policy at the School of owned operations to cooperatives, insisting instead on subSocial Work at Loyola University of Chicago...
...The text also speaks of each for three days), and the commission on laws has not yet the necessity of discovering a synthesis "between Christian been apprised of any measures on the subject...
...Yet as he made Essex University, a Masters from the-London School of Eco- these points in an interview, Arias emphasized that, "We nomics, and a bachelors from Boston College...
...Furthermore, acts against Costa Rica, while Costa Rica agreed to send a new he believed that the PVP was now under the influence of the .ambassador to Managua, and to continue a position of neuSandinistas, and that it was attempting to stimulate domestic trality...
...New York, N.Y...
...We In commenting on AID's intransigence, Arias told me, have to have technical vocational schools...
...In one the Ecumenical Council of Churches sent Fidel Castro a doc- Havana parish there have been scarcely three or four catechuument, "Hypothesis on the Relations Between the Churches mens a year for the past fifteen years...
...The Cuban National clearly says in referring to the Cuban Marxist state: "to parti- Assembly is to meet in June (there are two sessions a year, cipate is not to identify oneself with it...
...He maintains that if Costa Rica is to help its farmers and workers it must be through programs specifically directed to them, such as raising wages and keeping up farm * 11 issues for $9 prices...
...as a guide...
...during his campaign for the presidency...
...breeze blowing over the country: there is evidence of a return In this climate of detente, last November representatives of to religious practice and of personal conversions...
...In short, as one AID em- Another area that concerns Arias is education...
...Despite his own interest in rural development, Arias does not believe in the transfer of vacant land to farmers, one of the strong demands of the PVP, the arm of the Communist party in Costa Rica, nor is his view that of the trickle- Commonweal's "Try Me" Offer down economists...
...If tie did not shine shoes, his N FEBRUARY I hired a television film crew, through the grandmother would have no income...
...It is the way study program...
...right-wing pressure for an agressively anti-Sandinista foreign In 1983 he somewhat amended his views...
...ing real wages, by raising taxes on the middle and upper classes, by enhancing education, health, and housing services, I N FEBRUARY - for the tenth time since 1948 - Costa Rica and by intensifying the program of cooperatives - both conelected a president without incident...
...Young, for the most part, they were to receive their First that perhaps the time had come to devise a law which would Communion, or be baptized, this Easter...
...If everyof textbooks eliminating flagrant anti-religious references, and one lays aside his or her mistrust, bitterness, and even hatred in the end of the questions on beliefs for university applicants...
...Today there are twentyand the State...
...Nicaragua apologized for any unintentional become more intolerant of civil rights at home...
...order to dialogue," said one priest who has been in the country "In this century," said Pastor Adolfo Ham, president of the for twenty years, "then we can envisage at last a reconciliation Ecumenical Council, "you are not asked what race you belong of the Cuban nation, a better fate for everyone...
...What escaped filming, began with Mr...
...In 1981 he told me that while he was uneasy indication of his administration's attitude toward cooperatives about the Nicaraguan regime, Nicaragua was an important was the recent appointment of Rudolfo Navas Alvarado, pres- trading partner and he saw no reason to change this stance...
...He is Oscar Arias sumer and producer...
...A full-blown cooperative movement has Sanchez of the National Liberation Party (PLN...
...are picked up for prostitution, pornography, and begging...
...tion," he says...
...sufficient business orientation...
...To win part is socialist society without being considered naive, an institutional changes guaranteeing the status of Christians and opportunist, or a traitor...
...that a more extensive use bine them with the cooperative movement for a kind of work of cooperatives is most important for Costa Rica...
...But so is life...
...This transfer to cooperacamp is a most significant event...
...I stopped one boy to ask As we got into our truck to continue our journey, we saw if he would shine my shoes...
...but many things One of the economic programs Arias believes of greatest just aren't possible to achieve quickly...
...We must raise salaries, developing our agriculture and rural areas with more equaliza- offer more scholarships for foreign study, and attract better tion of income...
...toward the stadium...
...He ent national leader of the cooperative movement, as minister of added that Nicaragua had every right to take whatever position agriculture...
...We found her in a shack half way up a hill told that there are 40 million orphans in Latin America...
...In the last five years it four years of age, he holds a Ph.D...
...It demanded not just a sharp recent years, that Costa Rica will reassert a more friendly modification of all Latin American foreign debt structures, as stance toward Nicaragua during his presidency...
...I have inter- don't want to promise more than we can deliver...
...After his election in February, the New York Times uneasy with Nicaragua, believing its government had come reported that Costa Rica and Nicaragua had agreed to norunder the strong influence of Cuba, and that Nicaragua had malize relations...
...and most continued to lose policy, and with Costa Rica being our vaunted model, the money...
...These children had a family, but they Outside our hotel, children were roaming around looking were orphans - economic orphans...
...It seems likely, in spite of the caused a withdrawal of investments in the banana industry and cautious position toward Nicaragua which Arias has taken in had increased unemployment...
...At forty- existed in Costa Rica for many years...
...In 1981 he told me that although Costa Rica had a retary of the PLN for a number of years, and a staunch believer number of state-owned enterprises in sugar, aluminum, cotin many of the policies of JFK's Alliance for Progress...
...for someone to care for them for a day...
...Our cameraman, a Canadian FATHER EDMUND S. NADOLNY is pastor of St...
...in political economy from has grown from 10 to 15 percent of the GNP...
...foreign nalistic...
...nothing about it...
...Vincent Ferrer Church working in Honduras, explained that some abandoned children in Naugatuck, Connecticut...
...who was interested in "Near the soccer stadium," he replied...
...HONDURAS: FACING THE NEXT...
...equalization of income, Arias indicated that whereas the mid- Characteristic of Arias's broad philosophy is his emphasis dle and upper classes have business and professional pressure on experimentation and innovation...
...cooperation of the local Honduran CBS office, and with I asked...
...humanism and Marxist anthropology . . .," a notion requiring While they wait, the churches are profiting from the new either a large dose of optimism or a rather daring realism...
...We approached her shack through a city 100,000 of them reside in Honduras...
...American re- other European and North American democracies...
...We have to -------- ---- --- ----- - give people a chance to set their own priorities and run their own programs - although we must still help them through Send coupon or a facsimile technicians and professional advice...
...NADOLNY to leave his immediate family, who lives three hours from the city, to stay with his grandmother...
...They were too paterWith Central America being a focal point of U.S...
...I initiated this journey dump...
...He echoes fusal to assist anything but its own model of private ownership the philosophy of Jose Figueres Ferrer, three-time president is, he believes, a reliable way to alienate third world countries and father of modern-day Costa Rica: "What are tractors like Costa Rica...
...What Costa ployee told me, these cooperatives don't "know what the Rica needs as much as anything is improvement of its educabottom line is...
...And it is more efficient than state-owned teachers, more with Ph.D.s...
...Raphael Tercera, bureau chief of the CBS however, was the question I asked myself: What keeps her office in the capital, Tegucigalpa, who generously offered to going, with absolutely nothing to rely on except her grandarrange for our permission from the Junta National to travel son's shoe-shine donations...
...A significant less than clear...
...I ended larger than our average closet...
...caught the camera lens...
...Several years ago he 135% OFF COVER PRICE introduced legislation which called for such decentralization...
...Sister Patricia Gould, R.S.M...
...We have to com"We have got to convince the U.S...
...He told me that he had four children waiting on a corner begging...
...it overwhelmed by the impact it had made on me...
...provided of Figueres has long proposed, but a flat abrogation of Costa course, the Reagan administration does not threaten Costa Rica's foreign debt - far more than Arias thinks the nation can Rica, which has the highest per-capita foreign indebtedness in expect...
...To be sure, the text of the NECC their churches will probably take time...
...AID officials, Commonweal: 272 with whom I discussed this, say that cooperatives in Costa capital investment outside the, Central Meseta plain and the Rica are too "liberal," too "politicized," and have not a capital of San Jose...
...5/9/&6 9 May 1986: 273 it wished in its domestic policies, and that Costa Rica would do presidential campaign, Arias skirted the Nicaraguan issue...
...producing a television program on the poverty of Honduran That night our camera crew went to look for his grandchildren - started a journey throughout the country...
...He agreed...
...We asked her if we could film it...
...Perhaps most of all we need a substantial to bring grass-roots democracy to people, offering a method of improvement in the quality of teachers...
...DEMOCRATIC LEGACY IN COSTA RICA What can Arias deliver...
...grant Christians a full-fledged social existence, means of car- This climate, favorable for the churches, actually helps the rying out their mission such as access to the media, a revision whole Cuban nation which is profoundly divided...
...enterprises...
...Like his ton, transport, shipping, etc., coordinated by a public corporapredecessor, Luis Alberto Monge, he has been a long-term tion (CODESA), neither he nor any of the PLN leaders were Costa Rican representative to the Socialist International...
...Where does she live...
...Tercera told me Walking through the dump back to the car, we stumbled about the great numbers of "economic orphans," children upon two children searching for anything that might prove of from families with one or both parents who could not afford to value...
...there was great waste...
...Arias continues to support a negotiated settlement of unrest in Costa Rica...
...10016 Please send the next 6 months of Commonweal to: Name Address City, State, Zip 0 I prefer a full year's subscription at $28...
...That impact she looked frightened but consented...
...with cameras to certain areas in Honduras...
...We were mother's home...
...Under no circumstances would he favor Publicly he handled it gingerly, nevertheless coming to be providing aid and comfort to the Somocistas, or providing a labeled the "peace" candidate...
...In promoting the cooperative movement and without violins...
...The Protestant churches suggested in this text eight...
...Another key element in Arias's program is the decentralization of decision-making on local issues...
...But, he notes, "The most groups fighting for their interests, the government has to fight important virtue is patience...
...We cannot use the U.S...
...It wasn't difficult to find them...
...sidizing only transfers to private ownership...
...Close by was their mother - a look of hopelessness keep them at home...
...For Arias, cooperatives offer a third way between Arias wants to develop more "cultural interfacing" with purely private ownership and state enterprise...
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