Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central America came a sudden shout for help this week from Costa Rica's President José Figueres. His representative to the Organization of American States in Washington charged that an attack on Costa Rica by exiles and irregulars was staged and ready to go from bases in Nicaragua. He called for an emergency meeting of the hemisphere's foreign ministers to check "a grave situation." The O.A.S. Council planned to meet at once to act on Figueres' request...
...February Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat will make an unhurried good-will tour of Central America. Tentative itinerary: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. Milton Eisenhower hopes to accompany the Nixons at least part...
...from Sweden. When they arrive, he will have far and away the most potent air force of any Central American nation: the F51 was a hot plane in its day. But with deadly U.S. jets only 30 minutes away, Tacho may find that there is not money enough in Nicaragua to tempt any air soldier of fortune to risk combat in a World War II propeller...
...last weekend ordered jet fighters to the Panama Canal Zone, where no jets have been based for the past six years. The move was aimed at stopping a projected invasion of Costa Rica by disgruntled Costa Rican émigrés, mightily helped by Nicaragua's tough strongman, Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
...which the press is being hamstrung. The Chicago Tribune's Latin American Correspondent Jules Dubois. an old foe of censorship and suppression, delivered a report singling out Argentina as the worst offender, but also recommending that protests be made to Bolivia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Peru, Nicaragua and Venezuela for various forms of interference...