Word: bilbao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as by terrorist activity by Basque separatists. Over the past two months, Basque gunmen have killed 23 people, including onetime Franco Judge José Francisco Mateu, 58, who was shot down on a Madrid street. Last week three carloads of terrorists roared up to a police barracks outside Bilbao and machine-gunned 30 men who were playing soccer. Two were killed and eleven wounded...
...only were the famous Bilbao Song and "Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. Weill creates a dramatic internal rhetoric by alternating abrasive, staccato jazz-tempo passages with languorous melodies of rich and striking beauty...
...contract has been assigned to his own trading house of Willing & Morris. The committee offers American tobacco, lumber, rice, flour and other products in exchange for European gunpowder and other war supplies. The northern colonies usually ship their goods directly to European ports, principally Amsterdam, Nantes and Bilbao; the southern colonies make their exchanges through Dutch, Spanish and French ports in the West Indies...
Strikes, demonstrations and violence continued to trouble Spain last week. In Basauri, a suburb of Bilbao in rebellious Basque country (TIME, March 15), a demonstrator was gunned down by the Guardia Civil; a furious crowd forced the guardsmen to retreat to their headquarters. In Tarragona, a worker fell from a roof to his death during a clash with police. Shipyard workers even struck in Franco's birthplace. But a quieter event of considerable political significance occurred last week in Madrid, where nine military officers were found guilty of sedition...
...Madrid, Alava's provincial authorities declared themselves "profoundly disgusted by the government's acts." More than 30,000 people gathered for the slain men's funeral at the cathedral, where an angry priest thundered against the "brutal violence" of the police. While Vitoria mourned, workers in Bilbao, Pamplona and other Basque cities streamed off their jobs in sympathy, closing down hundreds of factories...