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Aided by members of the reactivated Caribbean Legion, who crossed the border from Costa Rica for the purpose, Nicaraguan rebels planned to ambush Tacho after a reception at the U.S. embassy residence outside Managua. When a party guest happened to notice suspicious movements outside the residence, and Tacho's troops rushed to investigate, the ambushers fled. Next day. one plotter lost his nerve and told all to the police...
Operation Devil. The white paper then spun out the details of a so-called "Operation El Diablo." Rebel and mercenary "saboteurs, assassins and criminals," it said, were being drilled on Momotom-bito, a tiny island in Nicaragua's Lake Managua; radio technicians were being trained on Somoza's Tamarindo estate...
...estate buyer, Tacho owns almost 10% of his country's arable land. Because his holdings are widely scattered, Nicaragua now has more than 600 miles of all-weather public roads, compared with twelve miles in the '30s. Along a 40-mile stretch of the new road from Managua to Tamarindo, there is not a single town, village or house-but the road ends at a valuable salt flat where Tacho plans to process enough salt for the whole country. His diversified interests have helped transform Nicaragua from a one-crop (coffee) country into an exporter of rice, sesame...
They leased a 237-acre plot near Managua, got a $7,000 bank loan, bought a tractor on credit, and set to work. Neither of them had ever operated a tractor before. "We had a big field," Dick recalls, "so we just turned her loose and fiddled around until we sort of got the hang of it." Once they found out how to run the tractor, they fitted it with lights and ran it at night...
Junketing through Central America last week, Major General Harry Vaughan, President Truman's military aide, stopped off in Managua, where Nicaragua's President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza tossed a champagne party for him and his cornpanion, White House Physician Dr. Wallace Graham...