Word: anastasios
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...with authorities for survival, the geological tragedy became a human one. Shooting broke out frequently between troops and bands of looters who roamed the savaged city. Emergency hospitals set up to care for quake victims treated at least 32 Managuans for bullet wounds. In a radio broadcast, General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza, 47, the strongman head of the family that has ruled Nicaragua for more than 30 years, despairingly said that his capital's biggest immediate problem was not hunger or the threat of disease but the "abominable beings" scouring the dead city...
...Vegas to Nassau and from Nassau to Managua, this trip was not entirely secret. For the first time in over a decade, several people from the outside world actually met him. At the Managua airport just before he left, Hughes talked for more than an hour with Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza and U.S. Ambassador Turner B. Shelton...
...only real contest was for seventh place in the race. Cornell's Mark Lester and Bob Anastasio ran seventh and eighth for most...
However, in the last mile, Harvard's Tom New came alive, passed Lester and Anastasio and finished seventh in 26:53. The two Cornell runners finished eighth and ninth. Lester ran a 27:04, with Anastasio right behind at 27:07, Harvard's John Quirk rounded out the scoring...
...Anarchy. After his victory, the dapper Arana drove from his fortress-like home, usually guarded by 20 tough gunmen, to his National Liberation Movement headquarters in his ancient armor-plated, black-windowed limousine. The car was formerly owned by Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza, who was assassinated in 1956; its floor was stacked with submachine guns. To his followers, who were celebrating with marimba music and firecrackers, Arana pledged that when he takes over on July 1 from Méndez Montenegro* he would "put an end to the anarchy in which we have been living...