Word: castilla
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...addition, 126 U.S. Special Forces experts at a new "regional training center" in Puerto Castilla...
...backed anti-Sandinista guerrillas have turned the country into a staging ground for operations against leftist Nicaragua. Two weeks ago, the Reagan Administration announced that it would send an additional 100 U.S. military advisers to Honduras and that the Americans would begin to train Salvadoran troops at Puerto Castilla on Honduras' northern coast. Many Hondurans fear that their fledgling democracy may be in danger. Warned a pastoral letter from the powerful Roman Catholic Church hierarchy last October: "Even though we have a more democratic society, people do not enjoy the necessary tranquillity of freedom...
When London's West Ham United lost 3-1 to Madrid's Castilla last month, the English soccer team's unruly fans urinated and spat on Spanish supporters, pelted the field with beer cans and fought with local police. To show that it would no longer put up with such antics, which are fast becoming a fixture of soccer matches, the European Football Union levied the penultimate penalty: West Ham would have to play its home game to an empty house. Last week the two teams played an evening match before a genteel throng...
...symphony; following a heart attack; in Washington, B.C. Born in Spain, Sanjuán moved to Cuba in the early 1920s. After establishing the Havana Philharmonic, he led it for nine years, then conducted music in the U.S. and Europe, becoming an American citizen in 1947. His compositions, including Castilla and Liturgia Negra, emphasized the African rhythms inherent in Cuban music...
...warm welcome the Baptists received was also probably the result of recently strained relations between the government and the Catholic Church, which outdid each other in greeting the visitors. Both the mayor and the acting bishop of Madrid sent emissaries to the Baptists' opening meeting in the Melia Castilla Hotel. In return, the prelate was given a Bible and the mayor a cowboy hat, L.B.J.-style...