Word: sacasa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real scoop when she disclosed, almost three weeks later, that the Johnsons had attended a dinner at the Averell Harrimans'-and that every-one had had a fine time. The Johnsons' place cards had been filled in with the names of the Nicaraguan ambassador, Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, and his wife, so that no one would know the President was coming until he arrived...
...future diplomats would be expected to pay their traffic fines. In the first ten days, 205 cars with DPL plates were ticketed, and 46 fines were actually paid. But by then diplomatic indignation was running so high that the dean of the diplomatic corps, Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, waited on Dean Rusk in person with a protest. Sheepishly the State Department backed up. The police department sent out a directive to be "diplomatic to the diplomats" once again. Only if there was a blatant violation or if the diplomat was not on official business would summonses still...
...some places, they already have been. In 1920, when Guatemalan Dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera was over thrown, market women joined the mob that lynched several of his Cabinet ministers. In 1954 they staged demonstrations that helped bring down the Communist Arbenz regime. In Nicaragua, one Nicolasa Sacasa leads a strong-armed squad of market women in battles against opponents of the Somoza family. And aspiring politicians, far and wide, pay court to the market woman, hoping that she will pass along a favorable word with the groceries...
With his waddling walk and jolly demeanor, pudgy Sevilla-Sacasa does not look very ambassadorial, but he has splendid qualifications for the deanship: a lot of pocket money, a large capacity for cocktails, an imperturbable stomach, a gift for small talk and a good memory. He takes his deanly duties seriously. "Thirty years ago," he clucks, "diplomats were expected to be aware of all phases of diplomacy before they came to Washington. Not so today. They need help, and this is what I am here for." One highly important help is Sevilla-Sacasa's method for introducing a newly...
Meeting Mr. Martini. Last week Sevilla-Sacasa rounded out 20 years as his country's ambassador to the U.S. In that post, he has served under four U.S. Presidents, eight Secretaries of State and six Nicaraguan chiefs of government. During his two decades in Washington, he has accumulated nine children, 34 medals and 4,400 photographs of himself and his family. A passionate baseball fan, he calls his children "my baseball team...