Word: somozaism
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...revulsion I watched on TV the cold-blooded murder in Nicaragua of a good newsman [July 2]. President Anastasio Somoza should personally bear the responsibility for the death of ABC's Bill Stewart. When a military force is reduced to the murder of unarmed reporters, one has to question the discipline of that force and its leadership...
...choice between living under Somoza or under the Sandinistas, i.e., Communists, is a difficult one. It is like being asked: "What do you prefer, to get shot in the belly or in the behind?" Sadly enough-because of the failure of the OAS -they are the only two alternatives Nicaraguans have...
...broadcasts from his bunker, Somoza last week declared that he was "ready to resist until my death"; not so his long-time mistress, Dinorah Sampson, who flew to one of Somoza's many properties in southern Florida. Although it has suffered heavy casualties, the 12,000-man national guard is getting weapons and ammunition from Honduras and Guatemala, and remains more than a match for the rebels in any conventional shootout. But there are faint stirrings of discontent within the guard, which at this point is the only significant segment of Nicaraguan society that backs the dictator. Said...
Sealed inside his bunker, Somoza seems unperturbed by that prospect or by the growing bitterness of the civil war. Both sides have begun summary executions of captured opponents or suspected informers. Missionaries picking through the rubble in Managua last week discovered the bodies of ten young men. They had been bound, tortured and mutilated by national guardsmen, the missionaries said...
...long can Somoza hang on? At week's end reports circulated that he would step down, if his armed forces were kept intact and his lapdog National Liberal Party was given the pivotal role in a new regime. Nicaraguan politicians speculated that he would announce his abdication at an emergency session of the National Assembly that he called late last week. But because so many of the 100 legislators failed to attend, Somoza could not put together a quorum, and the session was postponed...