Word: somozaism
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...Tommy, they got me this time," President Somoza said to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Whelan the night he was shot down. That remark recalls the one the President made when I told him I was retiring [in January 1945] as U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua. It was early morning, and he was in his hammock being shaved. He turned his head and said: "Jeemmy, do you realize that in the two and one half years you have been in Managua I have not once said 'no' to you?" It was true. During those war years, I had made many requests...
...that Somoza is gone, will our State Department try to cram his heirs down the throats of the Nicaraguan people by labeling any opposition to them as "Communist-inspired"? I know that U.S. policy has long been to support any dictator who is willing to play ball with our State Department. Is this the way we are going to lead the enslaved peoples of the world to freedom...
...mention that Anastasio Somoza Jr. ("Tachito") of Nicaragua was educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. It would make interesting reading if you could unearth the bug-brained bureaucrat who awarded a West Point appointment to the son of a foreign dictator...
Born. To Luis Anastasio Somoza de Bayle, 33, President of Nicaragua since the assassination of his father. Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, last month, and Isabel Urcuyo de Somoza: a fifth son, sixth child; in Managua, Nicaragua. Name: Heraldo. Weight...
...nearly everyone he met. Seven early years of work and study in Philadelphia-he never stopped rooting for the Phillies-gave him close U.S. ties. President Eisenhower, who sent his own surgeon. Major General Leonard D. Heaton, to try to save Tacho, noted in a message of condolence that Somoza "emphasized, both publicly and privately, his friendship for the United States...