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...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Texas Governor John Connally hunts elephants in Africa; Golfer Jack Nicklaus fishes for tarpon in Nicaragua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 9, 1968 | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...minuscule suite near the White House) funneled $41.5 million worth of supplies and services to 39 countries-at a rate of nearly one disaster per week. Duplication is frequent, since some poor countries seem to be "disaster prone": last year, for example, India suffered both drought and smallpox, Nicaragua fire and famine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Aid: Mr. Catastrophe | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

Ballots are secret in this election, but Ritter's support almost surely came from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and Panama. Marcos Robles, Panama's president, considers the election very important, and has reportedly been making phone calls to his colleagues all over the continent. Broad hints were dropped that if Ritter doesn't get the job, the United States might run into more trouble over the Canal Zone...

Author: By Thomas B. Reston, | Title: OAS Power Struggle | 12/7/1967 | See Source »

SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). The fishiest of stories: salmon in New Brunswick, Canada; sawfish in Central America's Lake Nicaragua; ice fishing in New York State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 28, 1967 | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

Died. Luis Somoza, 44, President of Nicaragua from 1957 to 1963, elder of Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza's two sons, who with his brother "Tachito" continued the more or less benevolent dictatorship established by their father in 1937, espousing a policy of diligent economic progress coupled with blunt anti-Communism in foreign affairs; after a heart attack; in Managua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 21, 1967 | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

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