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Stressing that it is more important to "build up a treasury of spirit than a treasury of wealth." Mexican scholar and writer Juan Negrin said last night the Huichol Indians of northwest Mexico possess a "nearly ideal" non-materialistic culture...
...Huichol: Ongoing Transformation of a Shamanic Culture in Mexico--Juan Negrin; Science Center...
...Santiago for a scientific meeting at the University in the Spring of 1971. At that time friends took me to meet President Allende. I said to him "You are a physician." "Yes,"--he replied. "Like Juan Negrin." I said--speaking of the ill-fated President of the Spanish Republic. "Ah!" said Allende. "I hope that this time it will end better...
From an Old Enemy. The reason for Franco's sudden mildness was not far to seek. Since 1936 Russia has been sitting on more than half a billion dollars worth of Spanish gold. When the civil war was only three months old, pro-Communist Finance Minister Juan Negrin secretly ordered 7,800 crates of gold out of the Bank of Spain, had it trucked to Cartagena and then shipped to Russia in charge of four bank officials, for "safekeeping." The Russians kept the Loyalist officials in Moscow for months, counting and recounting the gold. By the time they were...
...years, the Russians rebuffed attempts by both Franco and the Republican government in exile to recover the gold on the ground that it recognized neither of them-or, for that matter, their claims. But just two months ago, 64-year-old Juan Negrin died in Paris. Before he died, the Franco government claimed, Negrin willed his old enemy Franco the receipts for the long-disputed gold. With this documentary evidence, Spanish officials are now hopeful that they can force or cajole the Russians into repaying the gold...