Word: andorra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less Like Andorra. Finally, a coalition of Socialists, Communists and right-of-center Liberals passed the bill by defeating a combination of Christian Democrats, Monarchists and neoFascists. Perhaps now, said the weekly L'Espresso, "Italy will be a bit more like England and Sweden and a bit less like Paraguay and Andorra...
...Castro's forces in Key West. The Archbishop of Cyprus, with the aid of two armed sailboats, impounds an American heavy cruiser. Senator Mansfield recommends that the ship be exchanged for the crew and that $100 million be given for the bishop's inconveniences. The government of Andorra arrests 100 tourists for not genuflecting while passing in front of a church. Senator Kennedy considers the charges just and demands that reparations be made immediately. Albania jails the touring New York Philharmonic Orchestra for playing the Fifth Symphony because the first few notes were offensive to China...
...Gaulle's visit was staged in his usual royal manner. His advance party of 1,000 gendarmes prowled all over the principality looking for potential troublemakers, and even refused to let Andorra's 16-man militia fire a welcoming fusillade. The hundreds of stores that have transformed Andorra from a smugglers' paradise into Europe's largest duty-free shopping center were shuttered; the Tricolor was hoisted over the village-capital of Andorra la Vella. De Gaulle's aides reminded anyone who cared to listen that le grand Charles was, after all, the most important visitor...
...meet his Spanish Co-Prince, the Bishop of Urgel, except at an out-of-the-way church. The bishop remained in Spain. De Gaulle also upset the Andorran elders, who zealously guard their privileges, by urging them to relax the strict rules that deny citizenship to two-thirds of Andorra's 15,000 residents. And he winced visibly when the Andorrans broke into a game but off-key rendering of La Marseillaise...
When De Gaulle's black Citroen finally rumbled down the twisting road back to France, Andorrans wondered why their French Co-Prince had decided to come. De Gaulle spoke of building a technical school in Andorra and of connecting the principality by tunnel with France, but those announcements could have been made in Paris. Spanish officials called the visit "more picturesque than political," but Andorrans did not ponder De Gaulle's mysterious ways for long. They reopened their shutters and went back to catering to the thousands of lesser Frenchmen who come to Andorra each year to shop...