Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to do, thus confusing her early audiences. On the stump to support Perón's "social pact" economic program, she lashed out at black marketeers and hoarders. Last month, with a hairdresser and assistant hairdresser in tow, she made state visits to Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the Pope...
...necessarily disagree with what Mr. Ayrton said in your article but I do very much disagree with your opening paragraph. Franco Colavecchia Designer/Consultant Loeb Drama Center
...should be the last man in Portugal to lead a campaign for reform and liberalization. For most of his 64 years he has been a stern authoritarian. The son of a top financial adviser to Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, he was a volunteer fighter on the Franco side in the Spanish Civil War, commanding a detachment of other Portuguese volunteers. A few years later, the Portuguese high command, recognizing his potential, sent him to Nazi Germany for training with the then invincible Wehrmacht. From the German side he watched the siege of Leningrad...
...military takeover in Portugal will have "very serious consequences" for neighboring Spain, Marichal predicted. Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator, "has counted on Portugal since the Spanish Civil War," he said...
...under Portuguese rule, and have considered breaking away as Rhodesia did from Britain in 1965; they too like Spinola because he advocates greater autonomy for the provinces. Moreover, Spinola cannot be dismissed as just another left-wing critic. During the Spanish civil war he fought as a volunteer for Franco, and then went to Hitler's Third Reich for military training...