Word: anastasio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revulsion I watched on TV the cold-blooded murder in Nicaragua of a good newsman [July 2]. President Anastasio Somoza should personally bear the responsibility for the death of ABC's Bill Stewart. When a military force is reduced to the murder of unarmed reporters, one has to question the discipline of that force and its leadership...
Like a boxer who goes into the last round knowing that he needs a knockout to win, President General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle last week threw every punch he could muster at his opponents. From his windowless bunker in Nicaragua's embattled capital of Managua, he ordered air force helicopters to drop 500-lb. bombs and oil drums filled with liquid explosives on the barrios that rebels of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) have controlled for the past three weeks. The savage air attacks killed hundreds of innocent civilians, who were unable to reach the precarious safety...
...substantiated attacks: to find an excuse for robbing the Sandinistas of their victory by sending in the Marines to set up a new pro-American government in which the guerrillas would have little say. That, of course, is how the current Nicaraguan President's father, Anastasio Somoza García, came to power 46 years...
...Nicaragua's embattled President, General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle, the week was one of gathering desperation. The communiques that flowed into his fortified command post in Managua were grim. From Leon, the country's second largest city (pop. 62,000), came word that a national guard garrison had fallen to the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). From Rivas, capital of the southwestern district, commanders reported that a force of 700 guerrillas had not been beaten back. Managua itself was under siege. The sounds of heavy artillery salvos echoed through the bunker as Somoza's elite "Pumas," wearing...
...evening, Stewart's assassination flickered across millions of U.S. television screens, shocking viewers and touching off a series of official condemnations in Washington. In Nicaragua, most of the 97 foreign journalists covering the war protested the murders in a strongly worded letter that they delivered to President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle at a press conference. The letter also assailed the country's only remaining newspaper (owned by the Somoza family) and the government radio station for an "inflammatory media campaign" depicting the foreign press as "part of the vast Communist propaganda network." Wrote the correspondents: "This...