-- Somoza fell largely because of US pressure, so he was not "our SOB". Furthermore however nasty Somoza was, we did not see tens of thousands of refugees escaping Nicaragua to neighbouring countries during his rule. The short story of Nicaragua is that there was a US sponsored overthrow of an unpleasant dictator, a commie conspiracy stole the revolution, and the contras took the revolution back, bleeding the Soviet Union significantly in the process. The war cost the Soviet Union vastly more than it cost the US, and the Soviet Union could afford it less --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG O2nE3GR43JxWYey3RR11zt4sdp64nZ2+KYj+8Yv+ 41VIT0zZh9AAT+P/dbQDOVLCXj08qsCRHASyBXNX6