Word: bidassoa
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...people have rendered great services to the world-the new Spanish stability marks a step toward complete Western European integration." Finally in October, just 300 years after Spain's Chief Minister Luis de Haro and Cardinal Mazarin of France met on a tiny neutral island in the little Bidassoa River to sign the Peace of the Pyrenees, the Foreign Ministers of the two nations met again. What Napoleon did in between was not mentioned. Said Castiella: "The day of complete friendship and loyalty between Europeans has come...
...midnight last week, while cameras snapped and ground, French frontier guards lifted the striped barrier across the Bidassoa River bridge at Hendaye. At 8:20 next morning, the de luxe Pyrenées-Côte d'Argent Express pulled into Hendaye station. And there the glistening blue cars sat for four hours, caught in a snarl of bureaucratic red tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would...
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