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...step in the right direction, but both have been bogged down in ministries and parliamentary committees for more than three years, and there seems to be little hope that they will soon become law. Neither measure is all that radical. The religion bill, pushed by Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella to wipe away the image of religious intolerance that has hurt Spain since the Inquisition, would permit the nation's tiny non-Catholic minority (5,000 Jews and 30,000 Protestants) to build their own houses of worship-which, in practice, they are already doing. The press bill, drawn...
...children, he delights in kissing babies, is a stem-winding orator who always comes out strong on the side of social reform. - Fernando Maria Castiella, 58, Foreign Minister. Tall and scholarly, Castiella is a progressive Catholic and perhaps the Cabinet's most consistent defender of greater political freedom...
...first, Castiella finally accepted a five-year extension. The price: "military assistance" to the Spanish armed forces and a pledge from Rusk of $100 million in development aid from the Export-Import Bank...
...Handful of Oatmeal." First on Rusk's agenda was a private session with Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Ma ria Castiella y Maiz. It was also the most urgent meeting of the day, since the Spaniards had threatened not to re new a ten-year agreement, expiring this year, which permits U.S. bases in Spain...
...When Castiella left, there was hardly time for an aide to wipe out the ashtrays and for Rusk to glance swiftly at an other position paper before the arrival of the next foreign minister, Peru's Fer nando Schwalb Lopez. With Schwalb, Rusk talked economics and the Alliance for Progress. An hour later, with Ire land's Frank Aiken, the subject was the Congo. With Brazil's Joao Augusto de Aranjo Castro, the proposal for an atom-free zone in Latin America came up. Rusk said the U.S. would accept such an arrangement if it included Cuba...