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...Caribbean republic's obligations were met. At his rolltop desk in a musty corner of the wood-and-adobe Managua customhouse, Irving A. Lindberg did an honest and efficient job. More important, as the years passed, he made friends with a rising young National Guard officer named Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
...Managua, and two months' vacation in the U.S. each year. No man to throw his money around, the customs collector skipped the dictator's all-night poker parties. But in 1944, when a sit-down strike of businessmen threatened Somoza's power, Lindberg came to Tacho's aid by declaring that no striking shop owner would get any dollars for imports...
...statement drew applause from other Latin nations. Even Trujillo's old ally, Nicaraguan Dictator "Tacho" Somoza, spoke up: "Nicaragua knows how to settle its problems with its neighbors through the inter-American peace machinery. It's a shame that the Dominican Republic can't handle its grievances that way." At week's end, Latin diplomats were laying odds that the point would not be lost on lonely Trujillo...
...weeks Nicaragua's foxy, folksy Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza toured his volcano-studded domain. Ostensibly, he was inspecting his Atlantic Highway (not yet completed) and the villages and towns along the Atlantic coast. Actually he was giving his local jejes (leaders) the word on 1951's presidential election. Tacho, who was President from 1937 to 1947, would like to be President again in name as well as in fact...
Last week, impressive in campaign khaki, Tacho returned to his dusty capital to a hero's welcome. Some 25,000 Liberal Party stalwarts, including Tacho's uncle and stooge, arthritic, old (76) President Victor Roman y Reyes, turned out to acclaim "our guide and presidential candidate." Said scheming Tacho: "If at the legal time of the election the people maintain the determination they have demonstrated today, I shall take the place the Liberal Party has ordered me to take...