Word: asunci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavy. Shortly before 10 one morning last week, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 54, the exiled former dictator of Nicaragua, climbed into his white Mercedes-Benz 280 limousine along with his chauffeur and a business associate, and drove away from his luxurious villa in a suburb of the Paraguayan capital of Asunción. The limousine, followed by a backup car carrying three bodyguards, had traveled a mere five blocks when a Chevrolet pickup truck pulled up alongside, and unleashed a hail of automatic rifle fire. As the bodyguards returned the fire, a bazooka rocket, launched from the porch of a nearby...
...Miami that his body was flown for burial. It was Miami that had also been his first stop as an exile. But then, fearful that the U.S. might allow his extradition to Nicaragua, he moved on to Paraguay at the invitation of Dictator Alfredo Stroessner. In Asunción, Somoza's flamboyant social life and amorous escapades offended many Paraguayans. His reluctance to invest his hoarded fortune (estimated at $100 million) in the country was also said to have caused resentment. There was no doubt that Somoza had made bitter personal enemies as well as formidable political foes...
DIED. General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 54, Nicaragua's longtime strongman who was ousted last year; of bazooka and machine-gun fire after leaving his exile villa; in Asunción, Paraguay (see WORLD...