Word: iberian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salazar's old Iberian neighbor and amigo, Spain's Francisco Franco, was bending slightly more with the winds, announced plans to grant a measure of autonomy to Spanish Guinea, which is made up of the "provinces" of Rio Muni, a Maryland-sized West African enclave lying between Gabon and Cameroon, and the adjacent islands of Fernando Po and Annobón. The colony's 225,000 Africans, who harvest its coffee, cocoa beans and timber, and 5,000 Europeans will be encouraged to elect a rubber-stamp Parliament loyal to El Caudillo...
Reid admits that it was a cursory turning of life which bound him up with the Iberian peninsula. He spent his childhood and youth on Arran, an island off the western coast of Scotland. After World War II years in the East Indies, where he served "in what we call the Royal Navy," he returned to Scotland and entered the University of St. Andrew's. Then, after a number of years in France, he came to the United States, where he taught "off and on" at Sarah Lawrence. He first went to Spain in 1952, primarily to find...
Life is pleasant enough in the village. They wear good costumes there, thanks to Barbara Channing, and the two musicians play a good guitar. Paul Sapounakis' set, an ingenious arrangement of vaguely Iberian arches, would (if they were closer to me) surround the play well enough--even though it has nothing to do with Lorca's instructions. Still, it is only in the last act, when Eric Regener's music throws dread, mystery, and the Moon out on stage, that Blood Wedding really begins...
Neither end of the island has known much peace. Within 30 years after Columbus landed, the native Indians were wiped out by Iberian diseases and the abuses of slavery. The Spaniards imported African slaves and raised sugar cane-thus drawing the covetous attention of France, which in 1665 took over the western end of the island. In 1791 the slaves rose up and began the 13-year slaughter of whites and mulattoes that brought Toussaint L'Ouverture to power and established a Haitian tradition of brutal tyranny. The Dominicans got their independence from the Spanish...
...Toll. P. & O. began operations in 1837 with two small paddle steamers and an Admiralty charter to carry the rhails to Spain and Portugal, soon extended its routes beyond the Iberian Peninsula to India and the Orient. When World War I began, the company laid plans for expansion to meet the expected shipping shortage at war's end. Though the Admiralty took over P. & O.'s fleet, the company bought up seven of its competitors, by 1919 controlled half a million more tons of shipping than when the war broke out -though most of its own ships...