Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn of the century Congress earnestly debated whether the U.S. should build the projected canal through Panama or Nicaragua. One highly imaginative but possibly decisive argument against Nicaragua was that its volcanoes might menace the canal, and an enterprising Panama-route lobbyist drove the point home by sending members of the U.S. Congress Nicaraguan postage stamps showing a volcano in eruption...
Firm acceptances were in from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and most important, the U.S. Bolivia, El Salvador and Peru planned to send their presidents-elect. Indications were that at week's end, when the guests get together for the first formal meeting of the two-day conference, at least 17 chief executives and presidents-elect* would be on hand to lend glitter to the largest collection of heads of state ever to baffle a protocol officer in charge of dinner seating...
...conference, was postponed (TIME, July 2). With Ike present, the gathering promised to be harmonious; perhaps the knottiest problem to be threshed out will be the wording of a declaration of Western political ideals. And such traditional enemies as Costa Rica's liberal President José Figueres and Nicaragua's perennial Strongman Anastasio Somoza will doubtless be on their best behavior...
...countries. And to insure that the reports are not merely filed and forgotten, the Bank insists that the country asking such help pay half the cost of the mission. In several cases, the bank has actually taken a hand in helping run a member nation's economy. At Nicaragua's request, the World Bank stationed two of its experts in the capital for a year to advise Dictator Anastasio Somoza, now keeps one man on duty permanently...
After finishing college he served in the U.S. Foreign Service for seven years and as charge d'affaires in Rumania, Honduras, and Nicaragua...