Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Decent Respect. The reaction came swiftly, particularly in Britain. The left-wing New Statesman accused the U.S. of raining "secret gases" on civilians, declared: "The Americans, like Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, are treating the hapless inhabitants of Viet Nam as a living laboratory in which to test their new weapons." A group of Labor M.P.s voiced "horror and indignation," demanded that Britain "disassociate" itself from U.S. policy in Viet Nam. In Washington, visiting British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart censured his hosts, acidly suggested that they "display what your Declaration of Independence called 'a decent respect for the opinions...
...paid the local smuggling agent for his passage, the peasant is sent to a mountain hideout near the Spanish border, where he joins a group of 15 or 20 others and is turned over to a guide. Traveling for two frigid nights, they scramble over secret mountain trails into Spain, carrying their belongings with them. A vegetable truck drives them some 300 miles to an isolated ranch in the Pyrenees above San Sebastian. From there, it is a four-night trek down the Pyrenees into the flatlands of southern France, where they are packed into the false-bottomed trucks. Once...
...turning to the ski slopes of Aspen, Colo., and Taos, N. Mex., while West Coast kids like Mammoth Mountain in the Sierras, which is now so swamped that skiers wait 45 minutes for a lift. A few students, here and there, are going all the way to Italy or Spain. And, as ever, there is also a small clique of connoisseurs who insist on going to a great place called New York...
...decades, Western civilization has been edging away from the Biblical in junction of an "eye for an eye." In Britain, the death penalty (hanging) is now close to being abolished. In Europe, it survives only in France (guillotining) and Spain (garroting). Abolition has been slower in the U.S., but with the recent addition of Oregon, Iowa and West Virginia, the number of no-death-penalty states has risen to eleven. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Prisons reported a record low of 15 executions in 1964, compared with a yearly average of 167 in the 1930s...
...jobs are located mainly in Europe and pay the "living wage" of each country, varying from $40 a week in Scandaunia to $16 in Spain. They include positions with the Merimekko Dress Co. in Helsinki and with a distributor of Rolls Royces and Jaguars in Capetown. South Africa. Other jobs are situated in Parts, Madrid, Vienna, Belgrade, and Lqublians, Yugoslavis...