Word: lopez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal churches. But by far the most serious opposition has come from conservatives within the government itself. In his New Year's address, Franco threatened to take action against the church if it interfered in temporal affairs. A few days later, Spain's Undersecretary for Justice, Alfredo Lopez, attacked the "new church mentality," in which "the church becomes an exclusive group of prophets" preoccupied with achieving temporal justice and "the earthly paradise of Marxist society...
Rumors began circulating several weeks ago, when Foreign Minister Gregorio Lopez Bravo arrived in San Sebastian, Spain's summer capital. Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Chief of State, was vacationing on his yacht at Vigo and had summoned Lopez Bravo to discuss a restoration of the monarchy after a lapse of 40 years. The step is part of Franco's deliberate attempt to relinquish gradually his absolute powers. In July 1969, as the first move in that direction, the Caudillo named Juan Carlos to be Prince of Spain. Next, Franco overhauled the Spanish Cabinet, substituting younger, more moderate personalities...
...months, she had a fatal form of hemolytic anemia, a blood disease. The treatment that was keeping her alive involved surgical incisions into her withered veins so that almost continual blood transfusions could be forced in. "Please don't torture me any more," she begged her doctor, Rolando Lopez. Many doctors routinely, if quietly, withhold life-preserving treatment when they determine that its only effect will be to prolong the agony of dying. But Dr. Lopez was concerned that he might be charged with aiding and abetting a suicide on the one hand, or treating a patient against...
...Propelled by a shove from Hector Lopez, Roger Maris steps from the Yankee dugout to wave his cap in response to the cheers offered by a lovestruck standing-room-only crowd. Roger had just hit his 61st home run in the fourth inning off what Red Sox hurler...
...Saint Charles, a ship since dubbed "the Jewish Mayflower," arrived in what is now New York Harbor with 23 Jews aboard. They were fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. It is their descendants-including the Nathan, Gratz, Seixas, Franks and Lopez families-that Birmingham examines. They consider themselves the nobility of American Jewry because their heritage can be traced back to medieval Spain and Portugal, where their ancestors lived as grandees-Spanish or Portuguese noblemen of the first rank...