Word: ramone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What some educated Spaniards would like, but few think is feasible, is the establishment of true political parties, one of which would share the philosophy of West Germany's moderate middle-class Christian Democrats. "We had no middle class in Spain before the war," says Barcelona Banker Ramon Trias Fargas. "But we have one now, and these people have no voice in politics-yet." Franco adamantly refuses to give them one. Only two months ago he rejected a proposal by moderate advisers that he allow a variety of nonradical political parties under the sheltering umbrella of the National Movement...
...explosion at Plaza Miranda that overshadowed everything else. For more than a month, the whole Liberal slate was hospitalized. After the candidates emerged, with crutches, wheelchairs and bandages, their campaign appearances resembled a mobile hospital ward. Ramon Bagatsing, who was elected Manila's new mayor last week, had lost a leg; Senator Jovito Salonga, another winner, received extensive shrapnel wounds. A Manila businessman observed: "It was like watching a hospital scene on television. But it will work for the Liberals, all right...
...most recent evidence is provided by Dr. Ramon Lange, chief of cardiology at Milwaukee County General Hospital, who reviewed the cases of workers at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo, Wis. Last April a woman whose work at the plant involved handling nitroglycerin, a component of dynamite, was referred to him for treatment of chest pains, which seemed to occur only on weekends...
...them are operating in suburban shopping centers. Conventional supermarkets are also setting aside space for organic food departments, but most of the business is controlled by private entrepreneurs. One of them, Mrs. Mary Hatch, 65, left a job as a mortuary organist to open a store in San Ramon, Calif. Says she: "I saw so many dead young people when I worked in the mortuary-so many who would have lived if they had realized that you are what...
Died. Pedro Taruc, 68, ranking commander of the Hukbalahap agrarian rebel movement in the Philippines; by gunfire when he was waylaid by an army unit; in Angeles, near Clark airbase. A relative of Luis Taruc, rebel leader who surrendered to President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954, Taruc led the Huks since 1964, but failed to replenish their dwindling numbers. His death destroys the guerrilla threat to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos...