Word: diederichs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolution are nothing new to Central America or to Bernard Diederich, a Latin hand for 29 years, TIME's Mexico City bureau chief for ten and our man in Managua for the final seven weeks of the bloody Nicaraguan revolt. Diederich, who last month turned over TIME's Managua watch to Correspondent Roberto Suro, has reported on Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, the Dominican Republic civil war in 1965 and the 1969 "Soccer War" between El Salvador and Honduras. Says Diederich: "The Nicaraguan civil war, which saw the cold-blooded execution of one American journalist...
...TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who was in Havana 20 years ago when Fidel Castro's bearded guerrillas marched into that city, there were striking parallels between the revolution in Cuba and the one that many observers expect will take hold in Nicaragua. The FSLN'S Slogan, FREE THE FATHERLAND OR DIE, was the battle cry of Nicaragua's legendary rebel leader of the 1930s, Augusto Sandino. It had inspired the Castroite catch phrase, FATHERLAND OR DEATH. While the people of Managua celebrated, the disciplined Sandinista troops, who will become the country's only effective force...
...National Seminary in Managua, TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich found 11,000 refugees crowded onto the grounds of what had been a retirement home for elderly priests. Reported Diederich...
...national guardsmen opened fire without warning; his passengers were wounded. The Washington Post's Karen DeYoung, the Chicago Tribune's Mark Starr and two Brazilian reporters escaped a mortar attack on the guerrilla-held town of Leon. In Managua last week, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich and three other reporters were caught in an artillery bombardment as they attempted to keep a rendezvous with Sandinista leaders. Says the Baltimore Sun's Gilbert Lewthwaite: "It's Russian roulette. Everybody is trigger happy. You don't know where your enemy is or whom they...
...fledged civil war in which at least 2,000 died after a Sandinista force led by the now legendary Comandante Cero (zero) briefly seized the National Palace in Managua last fall. Since then political moderates have reluctantly rallied to the Sandinista cause. As one businessman told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich: "If the FSLN wins I don't know what our fate will be, but frankly I would rather see Somoza leave now and worry about that later...