Word: aranda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They then consider the development of primitive cultures, not only in the general terms of the technology and social organization of paleolithic and neolithic cultures, but also by examining a few specific societies, like the Aranda of Australia, the Hopi, the Kazakhs of Central Asia, the Haida Indians off the West Coast of Canada, the Ganda of Uganda and finally the Inca. They consider in a fairly sophisticated manner just what makes a civilization, and how the primitive forms developed...
...last week, Aranda was silent. To a newsman who tried to interview him at his club, he sent a note saying: "The General wishes to announce that he is totally uninterested in politics...
Major General Antonio Aranda Mata is still honored in Spain as the stubborn and victorious commander of the Franco forces in the bloody Civil War siege of Oviedo (1936) which lasted 91 days. But one night two years ago Franco police arrested Monarchist Aranda in a brewery where he had been meeting fellow members of the Comité Imperio de Coordination, a clandestine coordinating committee of anti-Franco underground groups. Aranda's civil war record bought him his freedom. He went into retirement, dividing his time between the reading room of the Club Casino de Madrid and his apartment...
...Sulzberger: 1) recent food strikes in Spain were planned, had the support of monarchists, police, and employers who promised to pay the strikers' wages; 2) the Spanish army is divided and in the event of war, Spaniards will not fight for Franco, but against him; 3) General Aranda heads a monarchist-left-wing socialist opposition...
...part, Brown's report may have been too strong. Item: Aranda is not considered the leading monarchist in Spain. But Aranda has shown in the past that he is willing to take risks for his political convictions. If the divided opposition parties should be able to reach a working agreement, the hero of Oviedo might emerge as the key figure in Spain...