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...attack was launched by vengeful followers of Costa Rica's onetime (1940-44) President Rafael Calderón Guardia, who was blocked from seizing power in 1048 by present President José ("Pepe") Figueres. The military commander was Captain Teodoro Picado Jr., a Costa Rican exile and 1951 West Point graduate...
Ditche'd & Disillusioned. Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza nurtured the rebellion without taking a military part. His Guardia Nacional harbored Picado as a captain; Picado's father (another Costa Rican ex-President) has long been Tacho's secretary; Tacho and Calderón Guardia admire each other. For warplanes the rebels started out with two T-6 trainers, one F47 fighter and one DC-3 transport; Tacho's air force included identical planes. A captured rebel said that he was billeted for pre-invasion training at the Nicaraguan Guard's Fort Coyotepe (another insurgent reported...
...that every American nation must aid any other American that might be attacked. But no permanent peace has been won. Figueres still despises Somoza and wishes that neighbor Nicaragua were an armyless democracy like Costa Rica. Somoza still hates Figueres and wishes that his good friend Calderón Guardia were running Costa Rica. The Calderonistas still think revolution a more promising route to power than taking their chances in elections. Perhaps by way of preparation for the next round of shooting, Tacho Somoza last week began uncrating 25 war-surplus Mustangs that had just arrived from Sweden...
Panama's Guardia Nacional energetically gathered evidence last week for the forthcoming state trial of impeached President José Ramón Guizado, accused of having conspired in the Jan. 2 assassination of President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón that raised Guizado from the vice-presidency to his brief 13 days of power. In sparkling Panama Bay. divers searched for the jettisoned murder gun under the direction of the confessed killer himself, hot-eyed Lawyer...
...main objection to airport hotels in the past has been the thunder of passing planes. To deaden the sound to a comfortable sleeping level, Los Angeles' Hyatt House incorporated sound baffles and special soundproofing into the hotel's walls, suspended the ceilings. The La Guardia Hotel also hangs its rooms from flexible steel spring clips so that sound waves striking the building will not set walls to reverberating. With both hotels already heavily booked, Ritter and Von Dehn each plan to build similar hotels at other major U.S. airports...