Word: fraga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gonzalez will get little help from his pro-NATO parliamentary opponents, led by Manuel Fraga Iribarne of the Popular Alliance Party. Fraga has seized on the issue as a way to embarrass the Socialists and has urged his followers to abstain. But last week a prominent member of the Popular Alliance, Maria Fernandez Espana, resigned, saying that the party's policy was "dangerous...
...sort is coming, led as usual among immigrant groups by the children. At the Loyola School in the Miami suburb of Westchester, both the Cuban and American flags are raised each morning, but nearly all the students gulp Big Macs and admire Madonna. In Miami proper, Josefina Fraga, assistant principal of Auburndale Elementary School, who immigrated in 1962, reminisces: "As soon as my kids got here they wanted to get rid of their embroidered dresses. They were more American than George Washington...
...seat majority needed to form a government. If the newly created Center Party musters enough seats to help make up the difference and put the Socialists into office, it could ward off a growing challenge from a right-wing coalition led by Popular Alliance Leader Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a onetime minister under Francisco Franco. That, apparently, is Suárez's aim. "The possibility of coalitions is a matter to be reckoned with after elections," the former Prime Minister said last week. "The Socialist Party knows that it can count on our support and our respect if they...