
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, September 27, 1993                   TAG: 9309270164
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WILLIAMSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

FORMER COSTA RICAN LEADER SPEAKS AT W&M

Former Costa Rican president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias Sanchez says the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War opened a new era of violence.

"We continue to face new evidence that the fall of communism and the dismantlement of the Soviet Union will be followed not only by an open fear of chaos, but by chaos itself," Arias said. "How ironic that from the ecstasy of the ideological victory emerged this menace of unpredictable wars."

Arias spoke Saturday night during a two-day symposium on international relations at the College of William and Mary.

He said the military buildup and ideological battle that accompanied the Cold War prevented the world from focusing on problems like poverty that plague developing nations.

Arias won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end war in Central America.

In his speech, he said the developed world must be prepared to offer Third World countries humanitarian aid and forgive debt or delay its repayment.

- Associated Press

by CNB