Word: anastasios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After narrowly escaping assassination last week, Nicaragua's durable Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza smashed what appeared to be the best-organized conspiracy to overthrow him since he grabbed power 20 years...
Nicaragua's President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the government charged excitedly, was scheming with Guatemalan anti-Communists to invade Guatemala...
...they still call me a dictator?" President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza mused one day last week, as he chatted with a visitor on the plank porch of his Tamarindo ranch house. "Our jails are empty of political prisoners. Our press is as free as a bird. The newspapers attack me all the time. I let them. They can call me anything but an s.o.b." The President laughed: "I won't stand for that...
...unseemly struggle for power, throwing innumerable relatives out of work and deflating the value of many of his properties. Most observers have concluded that he would try to keep the presidency in the family, turning it over to one of his two sons, Luis, now president of Congress, or Anastasio Jr., chief of staff of the Guardia National...
...week's end, the committee got a refreshing look at a hearty, roaring ex-seafarer, Phineas Blanchard, 74, president of the Turner & Blanchard, Inc. stevedoring company. Boomed Old Seaman Blanchard: when Jerry Anastasio and Russo asked to be put on his payroll in 1951, "I came damn near throwing them out. My company has never put anybody -any I.L.A. representatives-on the payroll." How about gifts to shipping lines? In 38 years, snorted Phineas, his Christmas remembrances have consisted of a form letter sending his customers "every good wish for Christmas and the coming year." But even Blanchard admitted...