Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dictator's oldest son, Luis, immediately assumed the presidency, and Luis's younger brother, Anastasio Somoza II, a West Point graduate, became commander in chief of the National Guard. Luis governed until 1963 when a puppet president succeeded him. It was then the younger Somoza's turn. In 1967 General Somoza installed himself as president, stepping out only long enough in the early '70s to make the necessary manuevers to permit his "re-election" in 1974. Like his father, the current Somoza's base of power rests with the 7500-member National Guard faithfully trained and supplied by the United...
...power struggle continues as Somoza appears intent on keeping Nicaragua in the hands of the family. His 27-year-old son, Major Anastasio Somoza III '73 and Somoza's brother-in-law and ambassador to Washington, Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, are reportedly the designated heirs to the throne. Sources in Nicaragua say that key civilian and military elements within the regime agree with the opposition that such blatant continuation of family rule cannot be allowed...
...over and expanded after his father died in 1953, has been put up for sale. The man behind the move is Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, the close presidential adviser who manages Carter's assets under a blind trust. (The President will keep his 241-acre peanut farm.) Neither Brother Billy nor Mother Lillian, who own the remaining third of the business, wants to run the warehouse, which has been operated since September by Gold Kist Inc., an Atlanta-based farmers' cooperative...
...Brother Jack got into the act with his first goal of the contest at 16:16 of the period. Murray, with the puck in the left corner, saw Purdy open and passed to him behind the net. Purdy laid it back to the right point, where Jack's whisperjet of a slapshot blinded its way into...
...mystique of boxing has had for writers such as Hemingway and Mailer, both personal acquaintances of Plimpton's, he himself is no bully. Before his exhibition "bout" against Moore, Plimpton's pugilistic experience was limited to a childhood incident in which two older boys threatened him and his younger brother demanding their money. Plimpton's older brother raised his dukes, but Plimpton cried "No, no, no!" and handed over his 20 cents, an expedient of which he says "the shame of it lasts until this...