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...Whelan, a poker-playing personal friend of Somoza, got the news and urgently notified Washington. The White House moved fast. A radio flash to the Panama Canal Zone awakened U.S. doctors, ordered them to fly to Nicaragua. A U.S. helicopter took off to whisk the wounded President back to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, at first light. Then President Eisenhower, who met Somoza at last July's conference of Presidents in Panama, sent off another plane from Washington carrying Major General Leonard D. Heaton, commanding officer at Walter Reed Hospital and chief surgeon at Ike's recent ileitis operation...
Nixon's Constellation had barely landed in sweltering Managua before Tacho wheeled him into the presidential palace to see an exhibit of arms; they were captured, said Tacho, from Costa Rican-based thugs sent to assassinate him last April. Vowed Tacho to accompanying newsmen: "I will not shake hands with the man who hired assassins to murder me and my family." Later, in private, Nixon tactfully persuaded Tacho to promise that there would be no further disturbances on the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican frontier...
...Managua, Teodoro Picado, the Costa Rican President that Figueres toppled in 1948 and since then the ward of Nicaragua's President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, readily admitted that the attackers were headed by his son Teodoro Jr., a 1951 graduate of West Point. It was an open secret that anti-Figueres expatriates had been training on Somoza's roomy estates for months. Geography indicated, moreover, that the air raiders came from one of Nicaragua's bases. For the record, however, Somoza emphatically denied...
...exiled anti-Communist army leader now plotting a comeback from Honduras. In Honduras and in Nicaragua, U.S. Air Force Globemasters and C-47s dropped down with emergency planeloads of arms and equipment for Guatemala's neighbors, and the U.S. sent three B-36 intercontinental bombers to rumble over Managua as part of Nicaragua's armed forces day parade...
...Managua, Nicaragua...