Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school belly-laughs, "Margie" has a certain nostalgia that is alien to the Swing generation but sacred to its patents. All the touches, from "oh you kid," through the Charleston and Irving Berlin's "Always," down to the high-school debate over whether the Marines should be withdrawn from Nicaragua-recreate the hoteha and ballyhoo of the years just preceding the depression. Especially typical is the portrayal of the high-school football hero, whose raccoon coat, honor-badge of the period, appears as standard equipment whenever the young buck comes in the screen, be it to hootchi-koo, crank...
Initiator of last week's talks: Jose Gustavo Guerrero, president of the International Court of Justice and Central America's leading internationalist. To his home in Santa Ana, El Salvador, he invited the heads of the five Central American countries to discuss reunion now. Only two came. Nicaragua's Somoza lay ill in Boston, Honduras' Carias could not find time, and Costa Rica's Picado was on a diplomatic vacation...
Dictator Tacho, who of late had been a target for some of the U.S. State Department's glassiest stares, announced before leaving Nicaragua that he would not be a candidate in the February elections. He bestowed his official favor on Dr. Leonardi Argüello, a 71-year-old druggist with a deep-dyed goatee. The other candidate. Dr. Enoc Aguado, a prepossessing lawyer with few relatives, was named by the opposition in Somoza's absence. An American in Nicaragua described him as "the kind of man who. if he were a candidate for President...
During the war, Dr. Kevorkian was a government agricultural advisor to Ecuador, where he was in charge of experimental stations developing rubber, cinchona, insecticidal plants and fibrous growths. From 1943 to 1946, he served as director in Nicaragua of the co-operative agriculture experiment station involving the U. S. State Department. He also served with the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations in Washington...
...mark of the new friendship, Havana's Communist Hoy lashed out at democratic Dominican exiles as "reactionary adventurers." Said one such adventurer, who remembered previous pacts between Stalinists and Latin American dictators: "First Nicaragua, then Brazil and now Dominica. Lombardo Toledano and his Communist friends have become the technicians for the salvaging of Latin American tyrannies...