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Exhausting the Bar. The trouble started with a noisy political rally in the capital of Managua, where Conservative Party Candidate Fernando Aguero harangued some 30,000 of his followers and called upon the country's 5,000-man army to join his anti-Somoza movement. As the crowd's mood grew uglier, troops moved in with rifle butts and bayonets. Before long, both sides were shooting. The highly emotional Aguero and 1,200 of his followers, mostly peasants just in from the country, fled to the nearby Gran Hotel, where they took 117 guests as hostages, including...
...Having exhausted the hotel's bar supply, the rebels packed up and left with only jeers for the soldiers rimmed around the hotel. The truce, however, was short-lived. When a new series of anti-Somoza demonstrations broke out, the government closed down two opposition papers and five Managua radio stations, searched homes and stores for arms and arrested 130 opposition leaders. Aguero himself ducked into hiding, then at week's end suddenly reappeared to announce that he still intended to run in the election, scheduled for next week. Against the Fabric. Aguero is up against more than...
...Nicaragua, Lorenzo Guerrero, former Interior Minister and Vice President, succeeded automatically to the presidency fortnight ago after the fatal heart attack suffered by President René Schick, the quiet, courtly Managua professor who was the hand-picked candidate of Nicaragua's all-powerful Somoza family. Guerrero plans no changes in government policy, is expected only to keep the office until next February's elections, when Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza intends...
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...