WHAT IS IT ABOUT PEACEFUL COSTA RICA THAT seems to invite abuse? In March a group of Nicaraguans took over their country's embassy in San Jose, held 24 people hostage for 13 days, then fled with $250,000 in ransom. Last September a Honduran kidnapped Interior Minister Luis Fishman. Then last Monday five heavily armed gunmen slipped into the Supreme Court building in San Jose and took 19 magistrates and five assistants hostage. Initially the kidnappers tried to pass themselves off as Colombians, demanded $20 million, safe passage to a South American country and the release of prisoners from local jails, which...
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