Word: cortese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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(11 of 11) share of Franco's powers to a premier. According to high government officials, there is unanimous agreement, at least within the Cabinet, that Franco's powers should be divided so that his death will not paralyze the regime. But there is no agreement yet, nor...
Even more impressive was last month's law, passed by a newly resilient Cortes (Parliament), giving Spanish workers the right to strike for higher pay. For nearly three decades, all strikes had been banned in Franco Spain.
One of the fundamental principles of Franco Spain has been that labor and management were both part of one big happy family-and, therefore, that all strikes were illegal. Last week the principle was put to a merciful death. At the instigation of the government, Spain's 601-member...
From the Arabs. Mustang is the Texas translation of the Mexican mesteño, a general term for anything that looks more like a horse than a cow. The animal the word describes was principally descended from the fiery Arabs imported to the New World by Cortes and his conquistadors...
Spanish unity today is entirely Franco's creation, for he rules the nation alone. The national assembly, the Cortes, is a consultative body at best, meeting infrequently with little public debate. Much legislation, in fact, never goes before it. The Generalissimo can make law by publishing any order in the...