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Nixon's Constellation had barely landed in sweltering Managua before Tacho wheeled him into the presidential palace to see an exhibit of arms; they were captured, said Tacho, from Costa Rican-based thugs sent to assassinate him last April. Vowed Tacho to accompanying newsmen: "I will not shake hands with the man who hired assassins to murder me and my family." Later, in private, Nixon tactfully persuaded Tacho to promise that there would be no further disturbances on the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican frontier...
...costly short-term debt financing (total: some $127 million) in rich, credit-worthy Venezuela seems explainable only in terms of the carefree feeling that "it's only money." Pérez Jiménez, not at all amused and more than a little embarrassed, reportedly plans a Cabinet shake-up soon to correct these practices...
...above all, Moscow's confession of failure, admission of serious shortcomings, and blustered warnings were proof of the essential myth of the Red monolith. A going concern does not shake up its management at the very top. After 37 terrible years of trying, the Soviet Communist system had still not found ways to feed and clothe its people, satisfy its national needs and provide a stable succession of governments-the Kremlin leaders openly confessed...
...shake-up was termed typical of a dictatorship because of the absence of a regular process of succession...
...Municipal Opera, never able to shake deficits, dissensions and accusations of poor management, suffered a serious blow last fall when its director, Heinz Tietjen, retired. The company turned to Ebert, who gained fame as a director of the standout Glyndebourne Opera. It was able to lure him from the University of Southern California, where he had taught opera for six years. "It was heartbreaking to educate young singers only to have them faced with unemployment," Ebert said, in explaining why he left the comparatively soft job for a tough one. "There just aren't enough companies to take them...