Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and unsecretive. Costa Rica offered Panama a written invitation, under informal discussion for the past few months, to join the Organization of Central American States, which already includes all the other isthmian countries between Mexico and South America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
...tremendously impressed with U.S. State Department careerists in the countries he visited, came to believe that they are far more capable of administering economic aid than the Foreign Operations Administration. He was perhaps proudest of his success in soothing, at least temporarily, the Central American feud between Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
...Tiny El Salvador takes the traveler through rich coffee land on paved roads, and he crosses Honduras' corridor to the Pacific on good gravel. Nicaragua's part of the highway, looping here and there to touch at the various ranches of President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, is mostly macadam...
Reluctant Peacemaker. When he reached feuding Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Nixon found his diplomacy put to tougher tests. His tour, planned months before January's Nicaragua-based invasion of Costa Rica, had not been aimed at ending tension between the countries. But Nixon found the role of peacemaker forced on him by 1) the understandable U.S. desire to see the little cold war ended; and 2) the persistent belligerence, impossible to ignore, of those two articulate, extrovert Presidents, Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza and Costa Rica's Jose ("Pepe") Figueres...
From Mexico the Nixons flew to Guatemala. Beyond lay El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti...