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...aimed at ending tension between the countries. But Nixon found the role of peacemaker forced on him by 1) the understandable U.S. desire to see the little cold war ended; and 2) the persistent belligerence, impossible to ignore, of those two articulate, extrovert Presidents, Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza and Costa Rica's Jose ("Pepe") Figueres...
Figueres similarly initiated Nixon's visit to San José by telling reporters that he would "never sit down with that Somoza," but he also wound up by assuring Nixon privately that he would "go more than halfway" to head off any more tension. The publicity Nixon turned on them may well keep them peaceful-for a while...
Ditche'd & Disillusioned. Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza nurtured the rebellion without taking a military part. His Guardia Nacional harbored Picado as a captain; Picado's father (another Costa Rican ex-President) has long been Tacho's secretary; Tacho and Calderón Guardia admire each other. For warplanes the rebels started out with two T-6 trainers, one F47 fighter and one DC-3 transport; Tacho's air force included identical planes. A captured rebel said that he was billeted for pre-invasion training at the Nicaraguan Guard's Fort Coyotepe (another insurgent reported...
...untiring Latin American Affairs chief, Henry Holland, could take satisfaction from an effective first military application of the 1947 Rio treaty, which provides that every American nation must aid any other American that might be attacked. But no permanent peace has been won. Figueres still despises Somoza and wishes that neighbor Nicaragua were an armyless democracy like Costa Rica. Somoza still hates Figueres and wishes that his good friend Calderón Guardia were running Costa Rica. The Calderonistas still think revolution a more promising route to power than taking their chances in elections. Perhaps by way of preparation...
...police planes would have been unthinkable Yankee intervention, but the O.A.S. as an international body was able with heightened prestige to accept the offer of Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland, U.S. Latin American affairs chief. Flying over rebel territory, the investigation commission learned enough to dispose firmly of Somoza's claim that his country had nothing to do with the invasion. They reported that "a substantial part of the [rebel] war matériel was introduced over [Costa Rica's] northern border." Figueres leaped at the logical opening: If that were so, would the O.A.S. supply Costa...