Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morocco's King Mohammed V declines to admit that the 12,000-man Liberation Army even exists. To repeated protests of the army's "aggressions," complained Spain's War Minister Antonio Barroso recently, all Spain has got back "are replies that Spain was responsible for them...
...getting rich from a boom that is now a decade old. In that time the capital city of Caracas has more than tripled in size to 1,100,000; the nation's population has swelled to 6,133,900. Farm hands are flocking to the cities; immigrants from Spain and Italy are pouring in. A primitive land ten years ago, Venezuela today shops for the delicacies of the world. Through the broad, temperate mountain valley that houses Caracas, Jaguars, Ferraris, Thunderbirds, Cadillacs crowd the six-lane autopistas...
Palma de Mallorca, Spain...
...disclosures set off a storm of anti-Moroccan feeling all over Spain. In Madrid, crowds booed Franco's Moors in the streets, greeted their newsreel appearances with noisy catcalls. Reluctantly, Franco gave the order to disband, his faithful Moors...
...Spanish pride were reports of restive stirrings in Melilla and Ceuta, the two cities on Morocco's Mediterranean coast that the Spanish hold and intend to hold, come what may at Ifni and in the south. Both cities are predominantly Spanish, have been ruled as part of Spain for more than three centuries. Last week the nervous Spanish garrisons' commanders had reportedly declared a state of emergency in the two cities, rounded up suspected Moroccan agitators, had hastily thrown up barbed-wire barricades along the borders facing independent Morocco...