Word: guardia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...general strike was called to protest the executions of the two terrorists who had been members of a Basque separatist organization (see box page 38). Police had to break up protest marches in half a dozen towns. In Algorta, a suburb of Bilbao, six Basques were injured when the Guardia Civil opened fire on demonstrators...
...carrying out the executions, Franco apparently placed the morale of the Guardia Civil, his 65,000-man security-police force, above considerations of foreign reaction. Since January, twelve security policemen have been killed in shootouts with terrorists...
...into the traffic, headed for Hoyo de Manzanares. Near that town was a conveniently isolated artillery training facility in rolling, rocky hills. "Orson Welles has a house up here somewhere," remembered one of the reporters trailing the entourage. "It used to be a great place for making westerns." Guardia Civil lined the routes in pairs at intervals and also guarded overpasses. A gas-station attendant explained that the show of force was due to the fact that "Franco always goes out on Saturdays...
...single local resident was at the village cemetery; relatives of two of the three men were present, the women sobbing uncontrollably at times. They signed death certificates by the roadside because the Guardia Civil officer in charge refused to allow them to see the gravesites. "You cannot pass," said the officer sternly. "I have my orders." The father of one dead man muttered bitterly, "This is a crazy country if the family cannot attend the burial...
Nine months ago, Margaux Hemingway stepped off a plane at New York's La Guardia Airport. Like other immigrants to the Big Apple, she was a little green. She had the blessing of the folks back home in Ketchum, Idaho, a happy disposition and a waiting boy friend. As a "hotdog skier" and sometime soccer player, and with only a year of odd jobs behind her, she did not have the exact skills suited to Manhattan's job market. But her grandfather had been Ernest Hemingway, so she had a well-known name. And though some...