Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What Spain desperately needs in order to keep its economy expanding is membership in the European Common Market. Twice rejected even for associate membership, Spain is afraid it may be cut off from its biggest and closest trading partner. Italy has already tried to restrict Common Market imports of Spanish oranges, and although the Italians have so far been
...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...
...Belonging. Their rejection sticks deep in Franco's throat. It wounds that most Spanish of all human feelings, pride. As long as his borders were closed, the Spaniard could turn his back on the alien world and tell him self he was better off without it. But Spain now wants back in, and all the way. Psychologically, it needs recognition, acceptance, applause...
...Spain is also anxious to restore itself as Latin America's godfather. The regime has opened its arms to Latino students, 15,500 of whom are now in Spanish universities. It sends books, trucks, heavy machinery and ships to a growing Latin American market, and Franco recently offered Spain's former colonies $1 billion worth of trade credits and technical aid. The motive ran deeper than merely promoting trade...
...Spain's feelings for Latin America are no better illustrated than in the refusal of Franco, one of the world's most zealous antiCommunists, to break off relations with Cuba's Fidel Castro. "We have too many Spanish interests to protect to pull completely out of that tormented island," Franco remarked last year. "It is always embarrassing to" deal with Communists; yet we are obliged to maintain some connection with those in Cuba. By so doing, we have protected our citizens there and saved many a Cuban life...