Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Generalissimo Franco's "personal rule" in Spain has remained relatively unchanged during its eighteen year existence. Several weeks ago Franco announced certain reconstructions in the administrative machinery, and last week the Generalissimo indicated that he was considering granting "more liberties" to the Spanish people for "loyal and constructive" political criticism...
...reckon descent, ruled all of northwest Africa from the Strait of Gibraltar (its Moorish legions settled in Seville) to dark Senegal and the swamps of the Niger. The new kingdom of Morocco occupies about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north of legendary Timbuktu. Except for the coastal strip it is sun-scorched desert, rich in minerals, which the French, since...
...wake of Dictator Francisco Franco's government "crisis" and Cabinet shuffle (TIME, March 11), the café wits in Spain last week were passing around a punning version of the old Latin saw, Finis coronat opus (The end crowns the work). Crisis coronat Opus, they said, and the Opus they meant was Opus Dei-a little-known organization of Roman Catholic priests and laymen which, it was rumored, had nine or ten members in Franco's new 18-man Cabinet...
...years Opus Dei inched ahead, an unofficial studying and worshiping commune of men who used old houses in Madrid as headquarters. They were in one of these on the city's outskirts when Spain's Civil War broke out, pinning them down in the line of fire between attacking Loyalists and Nationalists defending a barracks. After a two-day battle the Loyalists won; the Opus Deists slipped out of the house (Father Escrivá in worker's coveralls...
...believed to be a chosen instrument for liberalizing the reactionary Spanish church and possibly even the Franco regime itself. Members heatedly deny any political role, but admit their strong liberal leanings. Said one Opus Dei priest in the U.S. last week: "We did not like the idea in Spain that all higher learning must be government-approved and government-controlled. So four years ago we set up our own university in Navarra. The government did not openly resist us. This is consistent with our idea of freedom. We are Catholics, but outside the teachings of our church we believe...