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US said to set up broadcasts to Nicaragua from Costa Rica

The United States has agreed to a secret contract permitting use of a privately owned Costa Rican radio station to broadcast into leftist-controlled Nicaragua, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The arrangement circumvents a Costa Rican law preventing ownership of broadcast facilities there by foreigners , and is part of a $1 billion modernization of the Voice of America's worldwide broadcast facilities.

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