Word: arriba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right-wingers were predictably shocked by the legalization of the party. Some ultrarightists, shouting "Arriba España!" (Up with Spain! the old nationalist rallying cry), rode through Madrid in an auto caravan of their own. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Franco's former Information and Tourism Minister and leader of the powerful rightist party Alianza Popular, thundered, "What has happened is an authentic coup d 'état that has transformed reform into rupture...
...thin, barely audible voice, but that was all he needed. Spain was under assault by "a leftist Masonic conspiracy," he said, and was a victim of politicking "by certain corrupt countries." But no one, he declared, should forget that "to be Spanish is to be something in the world. Arriba, España!" Up with Spain...
...appeal to the nation's university students, who have worked hard to rid Libya's schools of alien influences. On Libya University's 8,500-student Tripoli campus, committees composed of professors, students and workers determine the curriculum and teaching methods. There I talked with Saddiqa Arriba, an attractive brunette wearing blue slacks and a knee-length tunic. As some students now do, she introduced many of her remarks with the ritual phrase Bismillah, ar-Rahman ar-Rahim (In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate...