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The next morning, Christmas Eve, Richard Nixon called Somoza from his vacation compound at Key Biscayne.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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The next morning, Christmas Eve, Richard Nixon called Somoza from his vacation compound at Key Biscayne.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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The next morning, Christmas Eve, Richard Nixon called Somoza from his vacation compound at Key Biscayne.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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The next morning, Christmas Eve, Richard Nixon called Somoza from his vacation compound at Key Biscayne.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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"Nicaraguans call this Somocismo without Somoza," Mr. Callahan said, using a term that refers to Somoza's style of ruling through favoritism.
NYT > Home Page By BLAKE SCHMIDT 2011
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Only Pinochet is still in place, increasingly isolated both domestically and abroad, a kind of Somoza of the southern cone, injecting steam into the boiler and turning that country into a powder keg that, if prolonged, can blow up resulting in a situation more terrible than anywhere else.
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"Somoza," Doug said, his eyes sweeping back to me.
Signs of the Times 2008
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"Somoza," Doug said, his eyes sweeping back to me.
Signs of the Times 2008
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Dr Castro helped the Sandinistas to overthrow Somoza in 1979.
From the archive, 12 January 1985: Ortega offers amnesty to contra leaders 2012
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Jack Anderson also told me about yet another alleged payoff, this from the Somoza regime, the dictatorship in Nicaragua, that Nixon pocketed $5,000 in cash from a bagman who was one of his sources, a Washington lobbyist named Irving Davidson (ph).
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