Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whitewash in TIME's apologia, nor all the paint on the cover will make me believe Franco is not a despot...
...there is no freedom of speech any more than there is right to tax evasion in the U.S. We all take joy in what is good about Spain: its economic progress. However, it makes painful reading for democrats all over the world the way your editorial seems to absolve Franco and his associates of the responsibility toward humanity for crimes committed during and after the Civil...
...describe Opus Dei Member Rafael Calvo Serer as a liberal monarchist who is a prominent opponent of the Franco regime. Calvo Serer's principal quarrel with Franco is over the timetable for restoration of the monarchy. As for his alleged liberality, in his published writings Calvo Serer has called for a monarchy in which both the Cortes (parliament) and the Council of Realm would be only advisory and could, along with the President, be overruled by the King if he so desired. He opposes universal suffrage, would outlaw political parties. Only by ultraconservative criteria can such a concept...
There was little question that the missing nuke would be recovered, but there were predictable repercussions from the Spaniards. After a twelve-hour Cabinet session, the regime of General Francisco Franco discreetly suggested that armed U.S. nuclear bombers henceforth stay in the airspace out over the ocean, well clear of the Spanish mainland...
...eyes, it is all part of a gigantic Franco-American plot. As the blonde, plump princess has been telling her 22,000 relatives ever since she set up the union in 1957, their common ancestor was one of 13 children of a poor Limousin farmer who fought with the Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution and was rewarded by a grateful Continental Congress with a huge farm in Vermont. He multiplied his fortune by 1) discovering oil in Vermont, 2) marrying a Creole beauty whose Louisiana father left them his gold mines, and 3) buying Chicago slaughterhouses. After...