Word: espanol
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...habla espanol -- English only spoken here. When it comes to language, however, Californians showed little tolerance for speaking in foreign tongues. In polyglot California, where Spanish is practically a necessity and Korean is not a rarity, voters passed a measure making English the "official" language. Many saw the vote as a sign of xenophobia. Larry Berg, a professor of political science at the University of Southern California, describes the vote as reflecting "no-nothing, nativist resentment toward this massive influx of people." But former Senator S.I. Hayakawa, a formidable semanticist who led the crusade, promised it was not meant...
...elevator men; 2) Cuban refugees are hailed as heroes; 3) a Puerto Rican who passes as Cuban will be hailed as a hero. Turning theory into practice, he trains the kids to navigate an outboard motorboat, drills them on Cuban geography and orders them to speak solamente en espanol. Then he busses them down to Miami and turns them loose on the outgoing tide. "Better to drown in the ocean, not the sewer," he claims,' underlining the film's melancholy message. Thirty-six hours later, Luis and Junior are brought ashore, sunstruck and dehydrated. On their hospital cots...
According to Aranguren, the government's claim to have liberalized the rules controlling student behavior is false. All university students in Spain must join the government-affiliated Sindicato Espanol Universitario, or Student's Syndicate. Recently, the government agreed to allow students to elect representatives to the organization; previously they were government-appointed...
...three Spanish professors were dismissed in August after an "academic judge," a professor appointed by the government to study their case, found them guilty of misconduct during student demonstrations at the University of Madrid. The professors had supported the students' right to organize apart from the government-affiliated Espanol Universitario, or Students' Syndicate, which all university students must join...
...maintained advertising sales offices abroad. These branch offices-there are today 17 around the world -solicit and sell space in the six international editions of TIME (in which the ads differ but the editorial content is the same as at home), as well as LIFE International and LIFE en Espanol...