Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apolitical by Franco, the officer corps is believed to be solidly loyal to el Caudillo's plans for the succession. Unlike Portugal's officers, they have not been radicalized by exposure to Marxist rebels in a losing African colonial war. The new King, in fact, is reportedly popular with the officers...
...refused to take part in several abortive, ill-planned military revolts against the Republicans, and in 1934 crushed an anti-Republican uprising of Asturian miners so mercilessly that he earned the nickname "Butcher." His loyalties, however, seemed more a matter of timing than of principle. When a leftist Popular Front government of Communists, socialists and anarchists swept the elections of 1936, bringing waves of street fighting, strikes and assassinations, Franco finally joined a plot by military men, fascists, monarchists and rightists of all persuasions to overthrow the Republican government. On July 17, 1936, the daring young general gained world headlines...
...testing ground for the weapons and strategies of World War II. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy used the Spanish war to perfect the Stuka dive bomber and the tactics of incendiary bombing that in one day destroyed the town of Guernica, among many others. The Soviet Union backed the Popular Front government, as did Communists everywhere. But the vastly greater weight of German and Italian arms, coupled with the decision by the Russians and Germans to seek a nonaggression pact, which dried up Soviet support for the Republicans, eventually gave the victory to Franco's forces...
...also said that it was responsible for the Paris murders, but its claim was disputed by the "Secret Armenian Army for the Liberation of Armenia." Thousands of ethnic Armenians still live in Turkey. Police believe, however, that yet a third group may have been involved; it is the Popular Front for the Liberation of Turkey, which is known to be allied with Palestinian terrorists...
...Rosen is still something of a marvel amid the scholarly turgidity and banal superlatives of most music critics. His prose is clear and elegant and his thoughts sharply focused. And through his intellectual gymnastics, he is able to convince his readers that, far from the cerebral monster of popular mythology, Arnold Schoenberg was a composer of uncompromising integrity who responded sincerely and successfully to the musical demands of his time. Perhaps Charles Rosen will bring him a small step closer to the general appreciation he merits...