EscucharAUTHORITIES WILL NOT INTERFERE with the new efforts to contact the kidnappers of two Europeans to be made by relatives and friends of the ladies today and tomorrow in the Northern Zone, Information Vice-Minister Manuel Morales asserted. A similar effort was foiled by a police helicopter last week.
COSTA RICAN DEBTS WITH HOLLAND, which amount to some $16 million, will be transformed into the capital of an ambitious development program to fight poverty in the region close to the Nicaraguan border, President Jose Maria Figueres announced yesterday, at the end of a visit to Holland.
DUTCH FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE group ING announced yesterday an agreement to advise the local Foundation of State Cooperation, by providing technical programs to Banco de Costa Rica, mainly.
LOCAL NEWSPAPER EDITORS WILL expose at the Inter American Press Association--which is to hold its midterm general meeting here March 16-19--the limitations to journalists established by the Figueres administration.
A PROJECT TO MEASURE SUSTAINABLE development in Latin America and the Caribbean--in the economic, ecological and judiciary sectors--was presented here Tuesday by German expert Sabine Muller. She explained that sustainable development protects natural resources and increases social investment.
REFERENCE RATE OF EXCHANGE * 199.56 colones (sell); 198.35 colones (buy) per U.S. $1 at Costa Rican banks. *50-cent up/down fluctuations at participating banks.
Events
MASH 149th., OF THE INDIANA National Guard, provided medical and dental care to some 5,000 residents in Upala, near the Nicaraguan border, the last 10 days.
JADE, BRONZE AND CERAMICS replicas of several dynasties, ancient paintings and writing, as well as bamboo handcrafts made by the Technical Mission of the Republic of China (Taiwan), are currently displayed at Juan Santamaria Museum, Alajuela.
JAZZ LOVERS WILL HAVE A NEW PLACE as of next Monday, when a club will open at Bar Davory, 100 meters west of Mas x Menos in San Pedro. There are no charges and everybody is welcome, the organizers said. Meetings are to be held at 8 p.m. every Monday.
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, DIAL 911. Operators speak English and Spanish. This service is limited to the greater Central Valley area, Cartago to San Ramon.
Weather
FORECAST from the National Meteorological Institute valid from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 7, 1996.
CENTRAL VALLEY: Little to partly cloudy morning. Partly cloudy afternoon, with scattered showers mainly on the western sector.
GUANACASTE: Mostly sunny.
CENTRAL AND SOUTH PACIFIC: Mostly sunny morning. Partly cloudy afternoon, with rain on the mountains.
NORTHERN ZONE AND CARIBBEAN WATERSHED: Mostly sunny, with scattered showers on the mountains in afternoon.
COMMENT: While trade wind is expected to remain light to moderate today, some rainfall is also likely on the western sector of the Central Valley and on the mountain areas of the Central and South Pacific and the Caribbean.
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