Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NATO withdrawal began to creep nearer, Erhard allowed technical experts in Paris to negotiate a "temporary" agreement under which the French troops might stay in Germany for the time being. Last week, as De Gaulle called in Bonn for a ten-hour visit under the terms of the 1963 Franco-German agreement (which requires biannual meetings of the two heads of government), it became clear that the temporary arrangement would probably become a permanent...
...newspaper A.B.C. is an institution in Spain. Usually dull, always conservative, it is nevertheless the most widely read and influential paper in Madrid. Besides, as the semi-official organ of the nation's organized monarch ists, it can justly claim to represent the government's position that Franco will one day be succeeded by a King. Yet early one morning last week, security cops moved in on newsstands to confiscate all copies of the paper they could find, readers. It even was the grabbed first it time from that A.B.C. sidewalk had been banned since the fall...
...four-month-old law supposedly ended 30 years of Franco censorship. There were one or two stern provisions in it, however, the foremost of which was that the government could confiscate anything it does not like and prosecute the author. And although the regime had not felt the need to use its powers against the generally tame daily press before, fortnight ago it banned a book edited by José Maria Gil Robles, a Catholic politician, which said that Franco should be followed by a liberal regime, preferably a monarchy...
...hierarchy has been unwilling or unable to achieve the same kind of progressive evolution within the church that has transformed other aspects of Spain. Perhaps the single most conservative group of prelates in the church, the 82 Spanish bishops average 65 years of age; all owe their appointments to Franco,* and most are old enough to still think of him primarily as the savior whose crusade spared the church from the terrors of Communism. By contrast, most of Catholicism's influential lay leaders, and almost half of its 34,500 priests, are under 40. Many of the priests...
...toward improving "a climate of détente between East and West." To that end, France and Russia will engage in "regular consultations"-period unspecified-and install a symbolic "white line" between their capitals like that already linking Washington and Moscow. In addition, they signed two accords calling for Franco-Russian cooperation in science and space, including an agreement for the Russians to launch a French satellite...