Word: murcia
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...surprise move by judge Bernardo Rauda Murcia reflects in part the Reagan Administration's new-found desire to get tough with El Salvador's extreme-right government that came to power last spring. Three weeks ago, U.S. ambassador Dean Hinton, who had previously been reticent to criticize the Salvadoran government, shocked a gathering of business executives in San Salvador by berating them on the human rights issue. Unless the Latin American government seeks conciliation with the left and puts an end to the terror inflicted upon civilians. Hinton declared that the United States will halt military aid to El Salvador...
...dawn of the Spanish Renaissance, an elaborately carved and colonnaded patio was the pet and pride of Don Pedro Fajardo, first Marquis of Vélez and fifth governor of the Kingdom of Murcia. At the turn of the 20th century, the patio became the proud possession of Financial Baron George Blumenthal, onetime president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When his Park Avenue mansion was razed in 1945, the 2,000 numbered marble blocks of the patio were tucked away in the Met's attic. Last week its pearly facades were dedicated as part of the museum...
Casona was born 53 years ago in the Asturias country in northwest Spain, but left home at an early age to attend high school and college in Murcia and Madrid. Imbued with a flair for the romantic and an avowed democrat politically, he was an ardent supporter of the Republican government in Spain and used his rapidly developing literary talents to aid its cause. After service in various important cultural positions, he was forced to flee the country in 1937 in the face of approaching Fascist armies...
...Spain, an unprecedented wave of religious fervor swept a country in which life, year by year, gets harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with...
...appointed compartment in the synagogue rested the sacred Torah, which the nuns of Murcia had safely returned a few weeks before...