Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though the country had emerged from a coma. After the 46 years of suffering inflicted by the corrupt Somoza dynasty, a new spirit ruled the land. From the flagpole by the bunker in Managua where exiled Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle had commanded a bloody last stand fluttered the red-and-black banner of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). Even the sounds were different Gone was the stream of anti-Communist propaganda that had once poured from Somoza's radio station. In its place came round-the-clock broadcasts of revolutionary songs and tributes to General Cesar Augusto...
...middle-of-the-road course, promising elections, an economy based on a mixture of private and government enterprise, and an independent stance in foreign affairs. Although the junta remains united, there have been foreshadowings of an eventual breakdown in the alliance of radicals and moderates who combined to topple Somoza. Asked if he supported the junta's economic program, Minister of the Interior Tomás Borge Martinez, a guerrilla leader who denies that he is a Marxist, would only say: "In the beginning it is going to be a mixed economy." What might follow...
...would also cancel the country's $5.1 million debt to Israel and Argentina for arms purchased by Somoza...
Washington hopes that the new government's need for assistance in rebuilding its shattered society will keep the junta on a moderate course. The Carter Administration clearly is trying to strengthen the tenuous relationship with the new government that developed during the long negotiations that led to Somoza's abdication. At his Washington press conference last week, President Carter said it was a mistake for Americans to assume that every abrupt change in the hemisphere is somehow "the result of secret, massive Cuban intervention." As for the future, he said, "we will use our efforts in a proper...
...Sure I've got enough to live on," conceded Tacho Somoza, as he fled Nicaragua for his $1 million home-in-exile in Miami Beach. By his own reckoning, the ex-dictator's uncertain future would be cushioned by about $20 million (out of his $100 million fortune) that he had managed to stash outside the country. To American experts who have studied Somoza's corrupt regime, both estimates, however, appeared surprisingly low. Most valuations of the dynasty's holdings were between $500 million and $1 billion; they included Nicaragua's national air line, Lanica...