Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gambles on her capacity for love--and loses. Holden is a little dull, but Dunaway and Peter Finch, the crazed commentator, manage to carry off the film's roller coaster ride of high-level network looniness." Well, as veterans of the Lincoln brigade might have said in response to Franco sympathizers during the Spanish Civil war: go to the front yourself and see what line you come away with...
...booming religious publishing business can boast some overnight bestsellers. A book version of Franco Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, for example, has sold 125,000 copies since its television showing at Easter. Even third-rate spiritual self-help books sell by the hundreds of thousands. At the same time, works of serious theology-like Maverick Swiss Catholic Theologian Hans Küng's treatise On Being a Christian-are receiving widespread attention. Some interesting new books...
...does anyone have proof of who, ultimately, was responsible for a raid that was the prototype of World War IPs massive bombing campaigns. Within hours of the death of Guernica, the Nationalists charged that Basques themselves had set the town afire-a lie that would persist for much of Franco's reign...
This week the rebuilt town prepares to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing with a memorial Mass, a photo exhibition and a gathering of historians. Madrid has stalled giving its approval to the ceremonies, in part because the Guernica controversy remains alive. Basques know that the Franco regime permitted a revisionist version of Civil War history: aircraft belonging to the Condor Legion, a Luftwaffe contingent supporting the Nationalists, had carried out the raid, but the Nationalist high command was not involved...
...lost 25 of his 100 or so men during the bombardment. He took pictures the next day in the smoke and the rubble, 48 hours before the Nationalists occupied the town. In 1970 he sneaked a mineral-water bottle filled with pure alcohol into the San Sebastian fronton, where Franco was attending an international jai alai tournament. Elosegi doused himself with alcohol, set it afire, and jumped into the arena from the second balcony, shouting, "Cora Euzkadi Askatuta!" (long live the free Basque country) and "Guernica, Guernica...