Word: catalonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under these conditions, the Lincoln Brigade fought with the other groups in the international column--the Garibaldi Brigade from Italy, the Mazaryk Brigade from Czeckoslovakia--around Madrid at Jarama and Brunette, at Belchitte, Quinto, Catalonia and at the Aragon Front...
Beyond the military actions, political questions about the Civil War have split leftists. In Homage to Catalonia. Orwell claims the Communists rejected the opportunity for socialist revolution, and instead allied with the bourgeois classes against the anarchists and lost the support of the peasants. Nelson calls Orwell's book the worst work on the civil war any says. "Orwell gave a distorted view of what the forces were in Spain. He expected socialist revolution. Actually the struggle in Spain was to defeat fascism and save the Republic...
Fearful of a rightist backlash and possible violence on referendum day. Suárez canceled a last-minute campaign trip to the restive northern region of Catalonia to supervise the search for Oriel's kidnapers. In a dramatic TV address minutes before the Friday "execution" deadline set by the terrorists. Suárez's Interior Minister Rodolfo Martin Villa said that the government could not accept "blackmail and coercion" and had tried every channel of "worthy and humanitarian" solution to the kidnaping. If Oriol is killed. Villa vowed, his kidnapers will be hunted down...
Beguiling Blonde. At the outset of his reign, Juan Carlos' somewhat stiff public countenance led many Spaniards to think that he might not be the right man for their chief of state. But in three excursions to Catalonia, Andalusia and Asturias, he sparked rousing receptions and warmed to the affection of the crowds. Juan Carlos is helped immeasurably by beguiling blonde Queen Sofia, 37, who along with her royal demeanor has also shown surprising political skill. In the Catalan town of Manresa, Sofia dismissed the royal automobiles and led the King on a flesh-pressing 300-yard march...
...lackey of the system." Replied a high government official: "Patience. Patience. The post-Franco era has barely begun." Then, after ugly rioting in industrial Barcelona, the capital of Catalonian separatism, the palace announced that the royal couple would make a number of tours to the disparate regions?starting with Catalonia...