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EVB2925753: Nicaragua President Anastasio Somoza challenged Pres. Figueres of Costa Rica to a duel. Jan. 12, 1955. His thuggish offer was made during the border war of 1954-55 between the Central American nations. A year earlier Somoza sent mercenary forces to Guatemala to assist the U.S. sponsored ouster progressive President, Jacobo Arbenz / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925878: Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa, Sultan Mohammed VI, of French Morocco. Aug. 27, 1955. The French elevated him to replace the exiled Mohammed V 1953, but Moroccans violently resisted. Mohammed V returned in 1955, and negotiations brought Moroccan independence in March 1956 / Bridgeman Images