Word: anastasios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already elevated Mexico into the ranks of what National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski calls "the regional influentials," with an increasingly activist foreign policy. Last spring Mexico led the opposition that defeated a U.S. plan for an inter-American peace-keeping force to intervene in the uprising against Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza Debayle; instead of supporting Washington's effort to find a compromise solution, Mexico broke relations with the dictator and recognized the revolutionary junta that soon overthrew...
...Park with a battery-powered bullhorn and three Red Sox banners. "You can't come up with winners all the time...It's been a great year for the Red Sox...It's been a great year for the Red Sox..." And it's been a great year for Anastasio Somoza...
...been a bad year for right-wing dictatorships-and for the U.S., which has often supported them. First Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran, then General Anastasio Somoza Debayle of Nicaragua were swept into exile by largely home-grown revolutions. Each had long been taken for granted as the absolute ruler of his country and as a friend of the U.S. Yet in the end, Somoza's national guard, cloned from the U.S. Marine Corps, was as ineffective against the Sandinista guerrillas as the Shah's army and secret police-the best that petro-billions could buy-were...
...credit. He is the principal architect of Carter's human rights policy, identifying the U.S. with developing forces of change around the world. His views on the MX missile prevailed. He was the Administration's key operator on Nicaragua and pushed his firm line for Anastasio Somoza's ouster...
...This is a polite revolution" With those words Sergio Ramirez Mercado, soft-spoken leader of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta, summed up all the changes in his nation since the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle five weeks ago. Polite has meant, above all, merciful. After 46 years of stifling one-man rule, the pervading atmosphere of fear is gone. There has been no reprisal by the victors; not a single member of Somoza's national guard has been executed, though its members killed thousands during the revolt. Despite predictions to the contrary, the unity of diverse political...