Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas Edward Whelan, 65, is a well-to-do, homespun North Dakota potato farmer and a power in his home state's politics. He has also been U.S. Ambassador to dictatorial Nicaragua for nine years-longer in one post than any other current U.S. ambassador and so long that he hardly seems the man for Washington's new policy of (as Richard Nixon put it) "a warm embrace for democratic leaders and a formal handshake for dictators...
...There was a wave of liberalism through the hemisphere," he remembers. "News filtered in to us of the university reform in Argentina, the fight in Cuba against Dictator Gerardo Machado, Guerrilla Augusto César Sandino's battle against U.S. Marines in Nicaragua, the opposition to the tyrant Augusto Leguia in Peru...