Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machine-gunned without warning; the woman and her child died instantly. A ten-year-old boy, witnesses testified, was dragged from his house and shot, and half a dozen teen-agers were lined up against a wall and gunned down. One 14-year-old boy was tortured by guardsmen, who cut open his chest with a knife...
...each place where the Sandinistas struck, National Guard posts were the principal target. In Esteli, beleaguered guardsmen protected themselves by holding twelve of the town's leading citizens hostage. And in Monimbó, an Indian barrio of 12,000 people on the outskirts of Masaya, angry rebels who have been battling the National Guard almost daily since February finally overran the local guardia station and slaughtered its two officers and a dozen enlisted...
...rebellion ended almost as suddenly as it began. In the face of a blazing onslaught by National Guardsmen armed with submachine guns and backed up by armored cars, the youthful rebels took off their masks, hid their arms and abandoned their resistance. But not before the government forces had strafed and bombed the city and gunned down the innocent along with the insurgents. The toll: 30 dead, at least 200 wounded...
...Here comes el Hombre," snapped one of the soldiers as he ran to a side entrance and opened a path in the crowd. Bystanders expected to see General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, Latin America's most notorious strongman. But the soldiers, as it soon became clear, were not National Guardsmen at all. They were commandos of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a leftist guerrilla organization dedicated to the overthrow of the feudalistic Somoza dynasty. They were about to launch one of the most spectacular?and most successful?terrorist raids in recent history. So successful was the outcome, in fact, that many...
...evening of the second day, the radio began broadcasting the commandos' communiqué, calling for National Guardsmen to arrest their superiors or flee with their arms. Next morning, 45 hours after it began, the siege ended peacefully. A bus drew up to the National Palace and one by one the Sandinistas walked out, leaving their captives behind, and clambered aboard. "With the black-and-red Sandinista flag flying from the bus and the guerrillas waving their rifles, it looked like a victory parade," reported TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich from the scene. "All along the eight-mile route, thousands...