Word: galicia
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...church, for example, started slowly after the end of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Other changes were triggered by the economic boom of the 1960s, which made Spain the world's ninth largest industrial power and spurred a major rural-population shift. Immigrants from the poor south and Galicia moved to Madrid, the industrial Basque provinces and Catalonia. In 1960 four out of 100 families owned a car; today...
Basques are the most adamant in demanding regional autonomy (akin to U.S. states' rights). But these sentiments are echoed in Catalonia and to a lesser degree in Galicia, Andalusia and the Canary Islands. There is widespread support for the right of these areas to make their own basic decisions on education, public works and taxes...
Deep Grudge. Born to a wealthy Rotterdam family, Menten first became interested in Poland through his father's business connections there. The son, in turn, developed an extensive export trade in Dutch products to Poland. Menten moved in 1923 to East Galicia (then in Poland, now part of the U.S.S.R.'s Ukraine), where he became a prosperous landowner and businessman. He was mild-mannered and quiet, but developed a deep grudge against a prominent neighboring Jewish family over a business dispute. Menten went home to Holland in 1939, when Russia invaded eastern Poland, and returned in 1941 after...
...Hans Knoop, editor of the weekly magazine Accent, and journalists of a television current-affairs program, Aktua TV* launched an investigative effort on a scale rarely seen in Europe. Pollak and another witness to the Urice killings were found; later, interviews were made with townspeople in East Galicia who identified Menten and described other killings in a neighboring village. Menten, denying all, was confronted, on live television, with the evidence...
...Arabs, Chinese, Eastern Europeans and others. From spring to fall, New York resounds with different ethnic parades. Emigre Tibetans maintain an Office of Tibet on Second Avenue. Then there are the Caucasian-Sircoisian Cultural Center, the Grupo Folklorico Paraguayo, the Korean Community Foundation, the Serbian Folklore Group, the Casa Galicia...