Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Henry Jones stars as Secretary of State Hamilton Fish who in 1869 struggled to keep the U.S. out of war with Spain over Cuba...
...Roque and La Linea, the Spanish cavalry has given way to commonplace infantry and militiamen, while on Gibraltar itself the Black Watch and the Lancers are only a memory, currently being replaced by the Middlesex Regiment. The 15-acre parade ground has become an airfield, while Britain and Spain are engaged in more than a sham battle over the Rock...
Smugglers' Den. The weapons are economic blockade and psychological pressure. At issue is Spain's rankling sense of being the only European nation with a foreign colony on its soil. This anachronism must end, says Madrid, and Gibraltar must be returned to Spain, to which it belonged in 1704, when a sudden British-Dutch attack captured the fortress in three days...
...Spain took its problem to the U.N. Special Committee on Colonialism, and in its report last October the committee suggested that Britain and Spain engage in private talks about Gibraltar. Within 24 hours Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered the blockade begun, calling Gibraltar a den of smugglers. On that point Franco was quite right. As a free port, Gibraltar has long been a haven for such contraband as whisky, cigarettes and radios, which are then often smuggled into Spain...
...blockade consists of withholding labor from the Rock. Even before the dispute, Madrid stopped giving new work permits to Spaniards for Gibraltar jobs, and in ten years their number has fallen from 14,500 to 9,000. Some 800 Gibraltarians living on the mainland were recently ordered to leave Spain and to return to the colony. Traffic across the border is now slowed to a crawl by Spanish customs guards, who take a full hour to examine each car; scarcely 14 a day are cleared...