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...would be, the guerrillas vowed, their "final offensive," an all-out push that would topple Nicaragua's military strongman, President General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle. Bands of well-armed insurgents of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) slipped across the border from Honduras and Costa Rica. The rebels first struck in half a dozen cities in the interior, bottling up government garrisons with torrents of bullets from Belgian-made automatic rifles. Then they moved into the capital of Managua, which had been paralyzed by a general strike. While Somoza's air force wheeled overhead, raining down barrages...
CANCUN, Mexico--Mexico is breaking diplomatic relations with Nicaragua because of the "horrendous genocide" committed by the government of President Anastasio Somoza, Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo announced yesterday...
Hundreds of persons have been killed in Nicaragua in fighting that has continued since Somoza's national guard put down an uprising led by left-wing guerrillas last September...
...Somoza's family has dominated Nicaraguan economic and political life for 42 years...
...Somoza's critics now include a majority of the nation's businessmen; they claim that none of this would have happened if the Carter Administration had more forcefully pressed the dictator to step down. They point out that U.S. Marines were instrumental in installing the Somoza family in power 46 years ago. In light of that, they charge, Washington should have gone well beyond the cutoff of economic and military assistance that the Carter Administration ordered after Somoza last January rejected an American proposal for a plebiscite to determine his government's future. "Such sanctions have...