Word: somoza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After narrowly escaping assassination last week, Nicaragua's durable Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza smashed what appeared to be the best-organized conspiracy to overthrow him since he grabbed power 20 years...
Nicaragua's President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the government charged excitedly, was scheming with Guatemalan anti-Communists to invade Guatemala...
Operation Devil. The white paper then spun out the details of a so-called "Operation El Diablo." Rebel and mercenary "saboteurs, assassins and criminals," it said, were being drilled on Momotom-bito, a tiny island in Nicaragua's Lake Managua; radio technicians were being trained on Somoza's Tamarindo estate...
...rest of the white paper seemed completely fanciful. TIME Correspondent Harvey Rosenhouse, who by chance had visited Tacho Somoza's Tamarindo estate a fortnight ago, toured the whole area and was able to vouch for the fact that there was nothing like a training camp there...
...Tacho Somoza was in a mellow mood. He was not really complaining-just thinking out loud and airing a few mild gripes. One of them was about the U.S. Unswerving in his love for the U.S. (he worked and studied in Philadelphia from 1912 to 1919), he could not understand why his affection was not more warmly reciprocated. "The U.S. takes its best friends for granted," he said. "You won't even give us arms, and yet you pour billions into European countries which don't appreciate your generosity. What advantage do we get from being friendly...