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...last weekend ordered jet fighters to the Panama Canal Zone, where no jets have been based for the past six years. The move was aimed at stopping a projected invasion of Costa Rica by disgruntled Costa Rican émigrés, mightily helped by Nicaragua's tough strongman, Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
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...