Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leading the fighting was the small but deadly Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which has been waging a battle against the entrenched regime of President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle, 52. Last month, in a daring attack on Managua's National Palace, the Sandinistas took 1,500 hostages and forced Tacho to ransom them back for $500,000 in cash and the release of 59 political prisoners. Next, the well-armed Marxist guerrillas staged a pitched battle against Somoza's National Guard in the coffee and cattle town of Matagalpa. Finally the Sandinistas raised the stakes to civil...
Opposition to Tacho Somoza finally erupts into all-outfighting...
...civil war. Somoza has to go." The teen-age girl shouting anti-government slogans in the battered town of Masaya last week hardly looked like a revolutionary. But, as upon countless others, revolution had been thrust upon her. An overwhelming number of Nicaragua's 2.6 million people had come face to face with something most of them had long anticipated and feared-civil...
...Somoza has vowed not to step down from office until his six-year term ends...
...Washington yesterday, the United States expressed concern over reports of national guard troops committing atrocities against civilians and urged Somoza, who controls the national guard, to conduct an investigation...