Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all the gloomy news from Europe, West Germany?by hard work and sensible policies of free enterprise?widened its lead as the Continent's dominant economic power. Spain held its first free vote in 40 years; encouraged by popular King Juan Carlos, 94% of the voters approved a reform bill calling for the election of a bicameral legislature this spring. In Northern Ireland, Betty Williams, 33, and Mairead Corrigan, 32, both Catholics, won the admiration of the world by ignoring death threats and leading thousands of women, Protestants and Catholics alike, in massive demonstrations for peace...
...Year I nominate Spain's King Juan Carlos. Where else in the world (this year) has one person been more responsible for restoring human and democratic rights...
Urged on by an electronic barrage of such jingles, nearly four-fifths of Spain's 23 million voters−including King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia −turned out last week for the country's first free vote since 1936. By a resounding 94.2%, the political reform bill drafted by Premier Adolfo Suárez's five-month-old government was approved, setting the stage for the election next spring of a bicameral legislature...
...abduction eclipsed the law that the voters approved last week. Under it the legislature will consist of a 350-member lower house, elected by proportional representation, and an upper house of 248 seats, 207 elected by majority from Spain's provinces, the balance appointed by King Juan Carlos. Critics charge that the bill is vague in some key areas and could give old guard conservatives decisive advantages in the coming elections. It also grants substantial, perhaps necessary, power to Juan Carlos, and leaves the rightist-dominated Council of the Realm untouched...
...halted peasant adoration of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Her brown face adorned the banners of the troops that overthrew Spain and those of Zapata's land-hungry rebels. Today she appears everywhere in Mexico, from cantinas to taxicab dashboards to countless adobes. But the original remains on Juan Diego's cloak in the basilica. The cloak is made of a crude cactus fiber that usually lasts about 20 years; this one is still in perfect condition...