Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excepting Costa Rica (and Panama, overshadowed by the Canal Zone), Central America has long been dictator territory. Until recently the tyrants of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador guarded each other's frontiers, hunted each other's refugees. When the upset in El Salvador broke their united front last week, the three remaining dictators must have readied their firing squads...
...Nicaragua's President Anastasio Somoza keeps his turbulent people in line with the help of a well-paid, wellarmed, brutal National Guard (originally trained by U.S. Marines who occupied the country in 1926). Governing more by corruption than by violence, he gets a financial cut on nearly every profitable enterprise in the country. Loudly "pro-democratic," he stands well with the U.S. Government...
...widespread news of quintuplets, quadruplets, triplets and twins? Last month had seen U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Thompson's British-born quadruplets (TIME, March 13), the Argentine Diligenti quintuplets (TIME, March 27), the Argentine quadruplets born (they soon died) the same week the Diligentis were discovered, the sextuplets Nicaragua claimed one day, denied the next. Last week Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women had two unforgettable days...
...hazardous mission." From the jungle training bases of Trinidad and the Canal Zone, from Guadalcanal and New Georgia came many a veteran Regular Army man itching for action. Some old-timers like Sergeant John Russell of Hammond, La., ex-Marine who wears the Navy Cross he won in Nicaragua. Others were the young, unmarried zealots who usually make fine soldiers...
...request program-for we might never have thought of the idea if so many important U.S. and Latin American officials had not written us about our Spanish-teaching program here in the U.S. (Among them were the Ambassadors of Panama, Venezuela and Uruguay, the Ministers of El Salvador, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, the Consul General of Cuba, several top-ranking radio members of the Rockefeller Committee, and scores of other dignitaries and just plain interested citizens.) And many of them asked if we could not work out a similar program to teach English to the peoples of Latin America...