Word: managua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. René Schick, 56, president of Nicaragua since 1963, a mild-mannered Managua professor and civil servant who was the hand-picked candidate of the country's all-powerful Somoza family, yet proved less of a do-nothing puppet than expected, largely running his own show and permitting the opposition to raise its voice, while working successfully to industrialize through foreign investment his land's cotton-coffee-cattle economy; of a heart attack; in Managua...
...Panama for electric power, $18.5 million to Uruguay for highway development. From I.D.A.. in addition, came long-term loans of $8,000,000 to El Salvador and $350,000 to Haiti for highway construction. $3,000,000 to Nicaragua to expand the water system of the capital, Managua...
...office where Communists and their collaborators check in. Recent visitors to Havana range from Mexican Artist-Communist David Alfaro Siqueiros (see Mexico) to a couple of Costa Rican banana-union bosses who stopped in en route home from Moscow. The effect of this spreads all over the map. In Managua, Nicaragua, students rioted, burned the U.S. military attache's car, demanded that Roosevelt Avenue be renamed after Augusto Sandino, Yankee-hating Nicaraguan rebel of the '20s. In Ecuador, students and white-collar workers formed a Revolutionary Union of Ecuadorian Youth and donned Sierra Maestra-type khaki uniforms...
...Central America is a place that O. Henry would still recognize. A fly-buzz quiet settles over the cobblestone streets of Tegucigalpa. Honduras; the weary bell of the city's crumbling, weather-stained cathedral gives out a few clunks, and toothless crones in black shawls shuffle inside. In Managua, Nicaragua, scrawny men, their shirttails out, flop gratefully in shady places in the plazas. In El Salvador, leaving some ornate mansion, a member of one of the 14 families that run the country glides by limousine to his club for an afternoon of bridge high above the sewer stink...