Word: dinorah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Through such maneuvering, Somoza acquired his mansion in Miami Beach, which is officially owned by a company based in the Virgin Islands, two posh condominiums in Coconut Grove for his estranged American-born wife Hope, and a luxurious apartment for his girlfriend Dinorah Sampson. Besides this choice real estate, Somoza's enterprises include six companies in Miami that imported a reported $30 million worth of beef last year, a 49% share of two Colombian coal-mining companies, and a controlling interest in Visión, a conservative newsmagazine that is widely circulated...
...broadcasts from his bunker, Somoza last week declared that he was "ready to resist until my death"; not so his long-time mistress, Dinorah Sampson, who flew to one of Somoza's many properties in southern Florida. Although it has suffered heavy casualties, the 12,000-man national guard is getting weapons and ammunition from Honduras and Guatemala, and remains more than a match for the rebels in any conventional shootout. But there are faint stirrings of discontent within the guard, which at this point is the only significant segment of Nicaraguan society that backs the dictator. Said...