Word: arriba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built a buffer province near the headwaters of the Rio Grande to shield her Mexican territories from possible French incursion. Transported to a wild, 600,000-acre land grant, Andalusian settlers turned their arid Tierra Amarilla into a grazing empire that exists today as New Mexico's Rio Arriba county. Bigger than Connecticut and almost as inaccessible as Tibet, the area sprawls southward from the Colorado Rockies to atomic-age Los Alamos. Its western reaches contain the licarilla Apache reservation, and to the east loom the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where at Easter fanatical Pen-itentes used...
...welfare. Schools are bad, roads impossible except for a single badly potholed highway. Those who still own plots are discouraged from grazing their cattle in the national forests that occupy much of the county. Fenced out from their Tierra Amarilla, the Spanish Americans of Rio Arriba have turned to an odd messiah preaching an impossible dream...
Minister to Marauder. Reies Lopez Tijerina, 42, is a stocky Texan of Mexican extraction who once was an itinerant, guitar-playing Pentecostal minister. Coming to Rio Arriba in 1962, he formed an alliance to promote the establishment of a "Free City State of San Joaquin." Later he organized the Federal Alliance of Free City States, laying claim to Spanish land grants covering 35 million acres in New Mexico, 72 million in Arizona. 400 million in Texas, 698 million in California. But it was chiefly in Rio Arriba that Tijerina helped launch a campaign of terror...
...Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 89, sent his resignation to the Pope more than a year ago upon falling ill; it may now be accepted. Of the other Spanish cardinals, Malaga's Angel Herrera y Oria, 79, sent a resignation that was accepted, and Tarragona's Benjamin de Arriba y Castro, 80, reportedly offered to step down. Paris' Maurice Cardinal Feltin, 83, said last week that he planned to retire, and Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, who will be 75 next month, is ready to leave at the Pope's pleasure. One U.S. prelate has resigned...
...DIRTY UNION AGAINST SPAIN, headlined the government daily Arriba. The press blared false accusations that the Munich petitioners had recommended that Spain not enter the Common Market. Franco consulted his Cabinet, rushed through a decree suspending for two years the part of Spain's bill of rights that safeguards the Spaniards' right to make their residence anywhere in the nation. Then the police went out to nab the more important figures as they flew back from the Munich meeting. Gil Robles was among the first arrested at Madrid's Barajas airport. The cops read...