Word: managua
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When portly George P. Shaw, the new U.S. ambassador, deplaned in Managua last month, Nicaraguan reporters pounced on him for a statement. "Glad to be here," breezed Shaw in safe diplomatic language. Then he turned to an aide, boasted: "Well, I guess I'm going to get along all right with the Nicaraguan press...
...first press conference, a few days later, Shaw learned that it was not going to be that simple. This time newsmen peppered him with hot questions about Nicaragua's explosive political situation. Questions like that, snapped Shaw, were out of bounds. Next morning the Managua press let him have it. "Former U.S. ambassadors used to turn away our questions with a smile," wrote one correspondent. "Shaw does it with austerity...
...general sailed his flat-brimmed, Pershing-style khaki campaign hat on to a table, and sagged into a chintz-covered chair. Scowling across the parlor of his Managua, hilltop mansion, Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza grumbled: "I did everything I could to prevent what is coming, but there's no way to keep the peace in Central America. For years Nicaragua's Guardia National has stood like a Chinese wall in Central America, stopping trouble from going north and south. God knows I'm a patient man, but there is nothing...
...last week Tacho swore he would not be flanked again. "You think I'm going to let them put me between two fires? No! The battle for Managua will be fought right over there in Tegucigalpa. When the first Legionnaire pokes his nose in, the Guardia will be there...
...Costa Rican exiles were so keen on fighting their way home. Wailed ex-President Teodoro Picado, now in Managua on a $300-a-month job as adviser to Nicaragua's Finance Ministry: "I ask only the privilege of returning home in peace. God, all Central America is a madhouse, each man accusing his neighbor...