Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Franco-American Look...
...height of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's repression of the region, sympathy for ETA ran high among Spain's 2 5 million Basques. But continuing terrorism has eroded that feeling. At present, says Nationalist Party President Garaicoechea: "ETA is not serving the interests of the Basques; instead it is helping the right." Garaicoechea's party wants taxes, social security, education, communications and law-and-order to be the responsibilities of the Basque people within something akin to a federal system. Under the new constitution, Basques are likely to get more of that than they have had in decades...
Early in the fourth quarter, after an exchange of punts, Bradshaw again led the Steelers down the field. They marched from their own 16 to the Dallas 23 where, with 11 minutes left, Franco Harris ran off tackle for the first running touchdown for a 28-17 Steeler lead...
...letters, interpreter of Spanish culture and diplomat; in Locarno, Switzerland. When King Alfonso XIII abdicated in 1931, Madariaga became the Spanish Republic's first Ambassador to the U.S. and its delegate to the League of Nations. After the Spanish Civil War, he became an energetic opponent of Franco, living in England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies. (His Bolivar dubbed the great liberator "a vulgar imitator of Napoleon...
...Franco-German insistence, the E.C. countries agreed in principle last July to try to link their currencies tightly. It was decided last week that each currency would be assigned a set value against all the others and would be allowed to fluctuate only 2¼% above or below this point. In theory this should create a "zone of monetary stability...