Word: rods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first have been his chief advisers and sounding boards on the Viet Nam war-Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy. It was Rusk, in particular, who in recent days served as the President's busiest foreign-policy adviser, articulator and lightning rod...
...along, Franco was persuaded to go on to an even more ambitious four-year development plan. At the heart of the plan are the seven development "poles" scattered throughout provincial Spain. Borrowing a page from Puerto Rico's successful Operation Bootstrap, Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó offers a five-year tax holiday, duty-free equipment imports, easy credit facilities and attractive plant sites to private industries willing to set up shop in these areas which are starving for capital...
...impossible to think of the economic development of Spain on the fringes of Europe," says López Rodó, and both he and Ullastres have been patiently arguing Spain's case for six years. But the decision to keep Spain out is largely political. Though France and West Germany have no objections, the memories of repression and fascism are still too strong for the Belgians and Dutch. Franco sticks in their throats...
...Laureano López Rodó, 45, Planning Minister and development boss. So soft-spoken that he appears almost self-effacing, López Rodó is known as Franco's eminence grise - partly because everything about him, including his hair, suit, socks, tie and personality, seems grey. The appearance is deceiving. Son of a Catalan industrialist, he spent much of the civil war as an under ground Nationalist agent (code number: 711) in Republican Barcelona, went on to become Spain's youngest law professor, at 25, and an international authority on public administration. He is an avid...
Opus Dei. López Rodó and López Bravo are two of the most prominent among the rising lights who share membership in a remarkable and growing religious organization known as Opus...