Word: fernando
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...Died. Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz, 68, Spanish Foreign Minister from 1957 until his ouster during a Cabinet shake-up in 1969; following a heart attack; in Madrid. Tall and powerfully built, Castiella fought with Franco's Blue Division shock troops alongside Nazi forces on the Russian front during World War II. As head of the Foreign Ministry, Castiella earned a reputation as a stubborn negotiator; he repeatedly drove tough bargains with the U.S. over military-base leases and doggedly-though unsuccessfully-strove to retrieve Gibraltar from British rule. Toward the end of his career, Castiella came under increasing...
Joan Folger San Fernando, Calif...
...hottest tickets in town, however, remain those at the New York State Theater box office, where baleful balletomanes hang out trying to cadge freebies and spares to any performance by ex-Soviet Superstars Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theater. Americans Gelsey Kirkland and Fernando Bujones trail only slightly behind. On Wednesday night, July 14, fancy footwork and aerial illusions should abound when the whole caboodle appear on one bill: Kirkland and Bujones in the 19th century Russian classic La Bayadère, and Makarova and Baryshnikov in Jerome Robbins' 20th century American classic Other Dances...
...strange things," the Prime Minister meant random acts of violence that so far this year have led to the death of more than 100 people, mostly in the slums of West Kingston. Last week, though, Peruvian Ambassador Fernando Rodriguez Oliva was stabbed to death by burglars in his home in an upper-class section of the capital...
...made skin flicks, called bomba, have been dampened by martial law sensibilities, so producers are now filming what they call "bold" movies, which are only slightly less explicit. The Philippines' most popular actor-director-producers are Joseph Estrada, who in real life is mayor of San Juan, and Fernando Poe Jr. Both are masters of swashbuckling adventures. Poe has just been signed to play the guerrilla hero Ferdinand Marcos−who was one in World War II and is now the country's strong-willed president...