CIVIL WAR ENDED
COSTA RICAN PACT PARTIES COMPROMISE (11 a.m.) SAN JOSE, April 20. The Costa Rican .President, Senor Teodoro Picado and the representative of the Right wing rebel leader, Senor Jose Figueres, signed an agreement today ending Costa Rica’s five weeks civil war. The agreement provides that the third Vice-President, Senor Santos Leon Herrera will assume the ' Presidency until May 8. Senor Miguel Brenes, a .former Minister of Labour has been designated Minister of War with authority to form a new Cabinet. It is believed a constitutional Assembly will be called on May 8. In announcing that Nicaraguan troops had crossed the border to Interfere in the Costa Rican civil war the State Department stated today tnat the United States had protested informally but strongly to Nicaragua. It is reported that Nicaraguan troops seized strategic points in Costa Rica. General Anastasio Somoza, the Nicaraguan Minister of War, claimed that his troops had penetrated Costa Rica at the Costa Rican Government’s request.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22617, 21 April 1948, Page 5
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