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Ready for War. Tacho had a shotgun propped behind his desk. He intended to be prepared on all fronts. Last week his flyers took delivery in Miami of AT6 trainer planes bought by the dictator after the U.S. recognized Nicaragua last May. In the Dominican Republic, the eastern end of...
Those projects were to smash three dictators: Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and Honduras' Dictator Tiburcio Carías. The battle-hardened exiles in Costa Rica had formed a "junta for the liberation of the Caribbean." Said bald old Dominican...
Exotic Resolutions. Markos, since proclaiming himself Premier of the "Provisional Democratic Government of Greece" last Christmas Eve, has not only been issuing conscription orders but otherwise acting like a government. Around him he has a "cabinet" of twelve men. Slight, dark Petros Roussos is Minister of Foreign Affairs; short, bespectacled...
Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
For the present, both the U.S. dollar and the Dominican peso will be legal tender, but after three months, by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's law, the dollar may be withdrawn from general circulation. The Central Bank will have the right to control all dollar exchange. Chief advantage for...