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...refusing to wear a black mourning band after Evita Perón's death. Shortly after the dictator's downfall, he was appointed as Argentine ambassador to Nicaragua at a time when Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza had publicly proclaimed that Perón would be welcome in Managua. Toranzo arranged a private talk between Tacho and Argentine President Pedro Aramburu; three days later Perón left Tacho's palace. Toranzo's big job in Caracas is to try to get Peron tossed out of Venezuela - and out of the hemisphere...
JOHN E. RAVEN Managua, Nicaragua
...when I told him I was retiring [in January 1945] as U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua. It was early morning, and he was in his hammock being shaved. He turned his head and said: "Jeemmy, do you realize that in the two and one half years you have been in Managua I have not once said 'no' to you?" It was true. During those war years, I had made many requests of him at the instance of the Secretary of State. I would hand my friend Tacho a memorandum. He would read it, initial it and, smiling, hand...
Born. To Luis Anastasio Somoza de Bayle, 33, President of Nicaragua since the assassination of his father. Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, last month, and Isabel Urcuyo de Somoza: a fifth son, sixth child; in Managua, Nicaragua. Name: Heraldo. Weight...
...most serious: it had entered through the upper right thigh and stopped at the base of the spine. The doctor's recommendation was an operation at the Canal Zone's famed Gorgas Hospital. At 3 a.m. a blue ambulance crept through the lonely, moonlit streets of Managua. Only four hours after Heaton's Constellation reached Managua, it was headed toward Panama with Somoza, his wife, and the task force of doctors. At Gorgas four surgeons, including Heaton, worked for four hours and 20 minutes removing the bullets in the thigh and near the spine...