A procession of dignified, black-clad women streamed through the streets of Managua last month. Elderly mothers, respectable wives and daughters thus protested the mass arrest of more than 600 opponents of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. But ingenious "Tacho" Somoza broke up their demonstration with a more effective one.
Out of the Managua slums rushed mobs of prostitutes. They pressed around the horrified women and girls, slapped them, spat at them. Male relatives came to the rescue, dispersed the screaming trulls. Then, from an official Government auto jumped skinny, blue-eyed Nicolasa Sevilla, owner of...
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