Word: pepe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Heard Pepe Figueres, long a critic of the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co.'s operations in Costa Rica, passionately defend the firm from a pending U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit. Figueres argued that United Fruit's "bigness . . . has led to the stability of our banana production...
...attack was launched by vengeful followers of Costa Rica's onetime (1940-44) President Rafael Calderón Guardia, who was blocked from seizing power in 1048 by present President José ("Pepe") Figueres. The military commander was Captain Teodoro Picado Jr., a Costa Rican exile and 1951 West Point graduate...
...then why not settle it this way?" grumbled Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho'') Somoza, who claims to be the best shot in his tough, U.S. Marine-trained Gnardia National. "He's crazier than a goat in the midsummer sun," replied Costa Rica's José ("Pepe") Figueres. an M.I.T.-trained coffee planter...
Born. To José ("Pepe") Figueres, 47, crusading liberal President of Costa Rica, who overthrew the country's dictatorial rightist-Communist coalition in 1948 and became the constitutionally elected President in July 1953, and blonde Karen Olsen Figueres, 24, formerly of New York City: their first child, a son. Name: José Maria Figueres. Weight...