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...Nicaraguan stage. In the Officers' Club down the curving street from the palace, The Boss-tired, nervous ex-President Anastasio Somoza-ruled the powerful National Guard and sat on the country's formidable stack of arms. From the haven of the Mexican Embassy, old Dr. Leonardo Argüello, who had been kicked out of the presidency when he turned on The Boss and decided to run the country himself (TIME, June 2), spoke out with surprising boldness. Biding its time was Somoza's real opposition, led by General Carlos Pasos and gimlet-eyed General Emiliano Chamorro...
...operation at Rochester's Mayo Clinic, and he was said to have a fat $20 million in the U.S. But he also had $100 million in land, cattle, railways, bananas and coffee in Nicaragua. He would trust that to no one. From Argüello he got an extension of time...
...Comunicaciones, seized the telephone and telegraph wires. With a radio microphone in one hand to instruct his single tank crew and a telephone in the other to demand surrender, Somoza sent out his troops. By 3 o'clock in the morning he had Congress in session; Congress declared argüello "mentally incompetent." Then Somoza went up the hill, awoke the President, told him he was through. Somoza had won his cheapest victory...
Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza has never intended to be anything but boss of his country. Having been dictator for ten years, he put his own man-goat-bearded Leonardo Argüello-into the presidency only last month (TIME, May 12). Tacho himself stayed on as head of Nicaragua's U.S. Marine-trained National Guard. But things did not go exactly according to plan. President Argüello showed disturbing symptoms of independence. This week it got to be too much for Somoza. His National Guard moved in and took over the Government...
Dictator Tacho, who of late had been a target for some of the U.S. State Department's glassiest stares, announced before leaving Nicaragua that he would not be a candidate in the February elections. He bestowed his official favor on Dr. Leonardi Argüello, a 71-year-old druggist with a deep-dyed goatee. The other candidate. Dr. Enoc Aguado, a prepossessing lawyer with few relatives, was named by the opposition in Somoza's absence. An American in Nicaragua described him as "the kind of man who. if he were a candidate for President...