Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Daniels took over ARA a little over a year, ago, he argued for recognition of "Tacho" Somoza's puppet President Victor Román y Reyes in Nicaragua. Daniels realistically pointed out that nonrecognition had failed to weaken Tacho's grip on his volcano-ridged nation, and had put the U.S. into the position of refusing to recognize an established fact...
Whose Affair? Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza affected bland surprise: "I'm told Calderon Guardia invaded Costa Rica-but that's his affair. We're guarding our frontier." Actually Calderon had issued his revolutionary proclamation in Managua, Tacho's capital. Dissident Costa Ricans had been training openly at Rivas in southern Nicaragua. Costa Rican intelligence sources reported concentrations of troops and barges at San Juan del Sur on Tacho's Pacific coast and Bluefields on the Caribbean...
Macoy asked "Tacho" Somoza, who does control Nicaragua, just what part of the story wasn't true. "Oh, that stuff about me getting some money to pay somebody. That all came from the opposition, but I don't mind. Hell, when they (TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin) told me about doing a story, I said, 'Why bother about me? I'm a friend of the United States.' But they said they needed the story, so I said go ahead. Hell, that's a lotta propaganda - didn't cost me a penny...
Throughout the five colorful Central American republics the Somoza story received maximum attention. All of the newspapers published either full translations of it, or excerpts from it, or commented upon it. La Estrella de Nicaragua (see cut) ran TIME'S cover on Page One, together with Bob Chapin's map (Somoza on the Spot) and a photograph of the Dictator and some cohorts reading the issue...
...what others were saying about him), Hannifin typed out his copy and filed it from San Salvador, where censorship applies only to stories about El Salvador. There were no deletions and Hannifin, who by that time was "about the color of the background of Chaliapin's portrait of Somoza," went to the hospital with a severe attack of jaundice, answering the editors' remaining queries from his hospital bed up to the time the Somoza story went to press...