Word: pardo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doomed heiress in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and she has also appeared in a film by Luchino Visconti. Sanda lives on the edge of the forest at Rambouillet outside Paris with her son by Actor Christian Marquand, her current lover, Painter Frédérique Pardo, and Pardo's mother. When as a rebellious teen-ager Dominique settled on a stage name, it was Sand -as in George Sand, the elegant cigar-smoking 19th century novelist. But apparently a century seemed not enough to avoid possible confusion, so Dominique added an a. And left...
...ideal place to hide the electronic paraphernalia of war-special devices, for example, to track each other's submarines. But the 1960s brought a greater awareness of the widening differences between the have and have-not nations and, consequently, a new concern about resources. In 1967 Arvid Pardo, then Malta's Ambassador to the U.N., noted in a rousing speech in the General Assembly that the deep seabeds were littered with minerals, notably commercially valuable manganese nodules. Arguing that the resources were the "common heritage of mankind," he proposed that the profits from mining seabed minerals should...
...Pardo's plan was instantly endorsed by the small states that dominate the U.N.'s General Assembly, and in 1968 they passed a resolution calling for the current conference...
...Spain, Francisco Franco captured the girl's heart by tucking messages into the hatband of a mutual friend who then delivered the love letters to the bride-to-be. Last week Francisco, 80, and Carmen, 71, celebrated their golden wedding, anniversary with a formal Mass at the Pardo Palace, attended by the Council of the Realm, most of the royal family and leading government figures. "A very quiet family day," El Caudillo called it as he accepted congratulations for five decades of "happy, virtuous, simple living...
...already considering an alternative. He is Don Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, 36, who has the additional advantage of being Franco's grandson by marriage and the father of the Leader's only great-grandchild. Two weeks ago to mark the christening in the Pardo Palace chapel of infant Francisco Borbón Martínez-Bordíu, Alfonso and his wife Carmencita were designated Duke and Duchess of Cádiz. Franco's reasoning in restoring the monarchy was to provide Spaniards with a familiar anchor after he is gone. Cynics refer...