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Nicaragua's President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the government charged excitedly, was scheming with Guatemalan anti-Communists to invade Guatemala...
...they still call me a dictator?" President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza mused one day last week, as he chatted with a visitor on the plank porch of his Tamarindo ranch house. "Our jails are empty of political prisoners. Our press is as free as a bird. The newspapers attack me all the time. I let them. They can call me anything but an s.o.b." The President laughed: "I won't stand for that...
...Tacho Somoza was in a mellow mood. He was not really complaining-just thinking out loud and airing a few mild gripes. One of them was about the U.S. Unswerving in his love for the U.S. (he worked and studied in Philadelphia from 1912 to 1919), he could not understand why his affection was not more warmly reciprocated. "The U.S. takes its best friends for granted," he said. "You won't even give us arms, and yet you pour billions into European countries which don't appreciate your generosity. What advantage do we get from being friendly...
...part of its $1.3 billion highways bill for the present session, the U.S. Congress last week authorized $4,000,000 for a 200-mile road linking Nicaragua's Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It was a great victory for Nicaraguan Dictato Tacho Somoza, convalescing in Boston after a major abdominal operation. "I am awfully happy," said Tacho. "Nicaragua is the best friend the U.S. has-and I love that road. It can transport troops across the isthmus if the Panama Canal should be blown...
Stepping briskly down from his special Pan American Convair at Washington's airport, Tacho Somoza embraced Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller and announced: "I feel at home here." Next day he called on Dean Acheson. Asked by newsmen what problems he had discussed with Acheson, Somoza answered blandly: "We have no problems in Nicaragua." Later, President Truman had Tacho to lunch at the renovated White House, showed his guest around the place and played the piano for him. "A great pianist," said Tacho...