Word: lacayo
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...Richard Lacayo...
...election day had indeed been marred by irregularities. Said Luis Nelson Segovia, a deputy from the center-right Democratic Action Party: "The possibility [of fraud] has merit. There were so many variants and shortcomings on election day. But there is no proof." Christian Democratic Party Spokesman Guillermo Antonio Guevara Lacayo agreed that there had been fraud, but said that the total number of votes in question was probably around 50,000, rather than 700,000 to 800,000. Said he: "They were mainly the result of breakdowns in the system and of incidents in small towns, but to think that...
Utter Chaos. Carmela Lacayo, 29, an American teacher and former nun who had been visiting her cousin at his home just outside the city, rushed downtown to help. There, she told TIME, she found a scene of "utter chaos: people running in the streets screaming, others digging frantically, trying to unearth trapped relatives, still others ripping up their pajamas to use as bandages. One young mother walked in the street clutching her dead baby to her chest while her husband strode zombie-like at her side." Next day, the city was under a pall of smoke and red dust. Thousands...
...Somoza name was hard to live down, and three months ago, two of Tacho's old enemies-Gynecologist Enrique Lacayo Farfan and Pedro Joaquin Chamarro, editor-owner of Managua's La Prensa-began marshaling their forces...
...muggy Managua the optimistic proprietor of the Libreria del Sol (Sun Bookstore) dressed his counters with copies of a timely book: How to Run a Revolution. Up on the hill, fat President Lacayo-Sacasa threw back his head and laughed until his sides hurt...