Word: francos
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...years, Dictator Francisco Franco had been "on his best behavior...
Spain's bid for associate membership in the Common Market was at stake, and el Caudillo was willing to relax his autocratic grip a bit in order to convince the Eurocrats of his sincerity. Last week in Brussels, on the eve of the 25th-anniversary celebration of Franco's Civil War victory, Spain's two-year-old application finally got a hearing...
...FRANCO VEGA Bellingham, Wash...
While praising the recent Franco-German friendship treaty as a "great achievement," Erler emphasized that the two countries should not form a separate bloc against other Western nations. Germany and France must overcome "narrow Nationalism" and maintain their participation in the European and the Atlantic communities, he said...
With Leonard Bernstein and Franco Zeffirelli making their Metropolitan Opera debut together in a new production of Verdi's Falstaff, the Met was sure of a sensation. What kind of sensation was a different matter. Bernstein, never one to conceal any possible hidden talents, had not conducted in a major opera house in nine years. Zeffirelli, whose last crack at New York was a disastrous Broadway flop (The Lady of the Camellias), had signed on as director, set designer and costumer in a house where all three jobs are notoriously difficult. But when the curtains parted last week...