Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Franco's Epitaph...
...offense-minded defense also got in on the act, setting up many of the goals with nifty passing. Franco Scalamandre and Michael Steward each had three assists while John Cochran had two. With the defenders up front, goaltender John Phillips was called upon to make 34 saves...
...with a lot on his mind," explained a government official in Madrid. He was accounting for the solemnly noncommittal look on the face of King Juan Carlos I last week as he received the cheers of a crowd almost three times bigger than the one that had seen off Franco's funeral cortege the previous Sunday. Although Queen Sofia seemed to enjoy the adulatory crush of those gathered in Madrid's Plaza de Oriente, the King remained impassive. In the supportive presence of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, West German President Walter Scheel...
...serving sentences or awaiting trial for political offenses. Among those the decree explicitly excluded were 250 or so prisoners who have been charged with crimes of terrorism, propagandizing for terrorism or membership in Communist and separatist groups condemned under the draconian legislation approved last July by the Franco regime. The death penalty will not be imposed upon anyone convicted before Juan Carlos' accession, but that was the only concession that the King made to opposition demands for immediate release of all prisoners arrested under the July decree...
...been slow developing, but since late last season he has directed the Steeler attack like a young Johnny Unitas. This year he has completed better than 60% of his passes, scrambled for first downs, and given his powerful backfield plenty of opportunities to carry the ball. When Franco Harris is at fullback, that may be all a team needs to win. The son of an Italian mother and a black father, Harris is a runner of the Jim Brown model: strong, shifty and astonishingly difficult to bring down. Last year he was the Most Valuable Player in the Super Bowl...