AFTERMATH OF THE TOWER REPORT : Costa Rica Denies North Aid Threat
- Share via
MEXICO CITY — Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez denied Friday a Tower Commission allegation that Lt. Col. Oliver L. North threatened to cut off U.S. economic aid to Costa Rica if Arias closed a contra airstrip North and his associates had established in his country.
The airfield was a landing point for disabled contra supply planes and other secret missions, according to the report.
Arias, on a two-day state visit here, insisted at a news conference that no U.S. government official had made keeping the airstrip open a condition for economic aid to Costa Rica, and denied that he had ever spoken to North or received any communication from him.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
In 2005, there was no bigger show in L.A. than USC football. The players were household names, celebrities crowded the sidelines, and the wins kept piling up — until Texas came to town.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
