Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mischief. But the U.S. point of view-that ending the war was a task for the Organization of American States-prevailed. The OAS promptly voted to hold a foreign ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro July 7. An investigating mission made ready to fly to Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua...
...probably operating from Nicaragua, functioned as a strategic air force, doing the relatively heavy jobs...
...stirred up the neighbors. One afternoon last week, a grey C-47 buzzed low over Guatemala City, showering leaflets which called on all true patriots to rise and fight for Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, exiled anti-Communist army leader now plotting a comeback from Honduras. In Honduras and in Nicaragua, U.S. Air Force Globemasters and C-47s dropped down with emergency planeloads of arms and equipment for Guatemala's neighbors, and the U.S. sent three B-36 intercontinental bombers to rumble over Managua as part of Nicaragua's armed forces day parade...
Time for Change? Watching and waiting, Washington stepped up action slowly. Since it might be preferable that another republic take the lead in proposing action against Guatemalan Communism, the State Department stood by while Nicaragua and Costa Rica sounded out the South Americans on collective action. But Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson hinted at what might come when he told a Texas audience last week that economic sanctions against Guatemala are under consideration. In an ominously vague phrase Secretary John Foster Dulles forecast collective action-"if circumstances permit...
...hunting and fishing club." (The State Department explained that it had refused because of the "obvious uncertainty as to the purposes for which those arms might be used.") Through depletion, Guatemala's 6,000-man army had become worse supplied than the armies of Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Now it is the best armed...