Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high and mountainous land, is the land of God." The date was Sept. 12, 1504, the speaker was Christopher Columbus, and the occasion was his fourth and final departure from the island he discovered in 1492. Columbus named it La Isla Española because it reminded him of Spain. For the Spaniards and French who followed him, for the Indians they slaughtered, for the Negro slaves they imported, and for anyone within a bullet's range last week, Hispaniola was more like hell on earth than the warm, jasmine-scented paradise it might be. Last week marked...
Last week's decree was another step in Franco's march away from isolation and tyranny. With the passions of the Civil War now all but dead, with a booming economy and a growing middle class, and with the political currents of the Western world whistling through Spain's wide-open doors, the pace of the march has been quickening...
Orders from Abroad. Franco may never be considered respectable enough to be granted full membership in the Western community, but he has come a long way. As a de facto member of NATO, Spain last year was given full control of the former U.S. radar defense-warning system, has been promised F-104 fighter-bombers for its air force, plans to zip it up even further, with 70 new F-5 supersonic bombers-to be built in Spain under license from Northrop. Spain still stands in the Common Market waiting room, but it is busily spreading a net of trade...
Relations with the Communist bloc are also thawing. Although the Caudillo has not gone so far as to establish diplomatic contact, Spain has opened commercial offices in both Budapest and Warsaw, and allowed Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria to send trade missions to Madrid. Spanish soccer teams often entertain Russian opponents these days, even though it means flying the hammer and sickle over Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The Catholic newspaper Ya, which, like the rest of the Spanish press, had for more than two decades been forbidden to publish a Russian dateline, last month opened its own Moscow...
Nowhere is change more dramatically apparent than in Spain's economy, which has boomed beyond the wildest dreams of the young reformers who sit beside Franco in Spain's Cabinet. New factories, skyscrapers and apartment buildings are popping up like handkerchiefs in a bull ring; nearly 200 American companies have set up offices in Spain, and overall foreign investment is pouring in at the rate of nearly $300 million a year. Fourteen million tourists entered Spain last year, and a staggering 16 million-more than one for every two Spaniards-are expected this year. In five years, treasury...