Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of that show, three dozen F-100 fighters sped off their home runways at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico on the 5,200-mile flight to Torrejon, Spain, then the 3,100-mile leg to Dezful, Iran, with frequent in-flight refueling by Strategic Air Command KC-135 tankers. Some 2,500 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division boarded twelve Military Air Transport Service C-135 jets at Kentucky's Fort Campbell, landed at Adana, Turkey, in a miserable rain. There they switched to C-130s, their usual jump planes. From all over the U.S., various...
Royalist Ambitions. Without a word to her family, Irene flew to Paris, where she joined her fiance, Spain's Prince Carlos de Borbón y Parma. Her engagement to him and her conversion to Roman Catholicism caused a constitutional crisis two months ago that was only ended by her removal from the Dutch line of succession (TIME, Feb. 14). Now, in a country precariously balanced between Protestants and Roman Catholics, the crisis flared up again when the pair flew from Paris on to Rome for an audience with Pope Paul VI. The meeting was held in secret...
...Moorish city of Granada and shot by a Falangist firing squad. This was ordered, it now seems possible, not because Lorca had any political affiliations but because Manuel Fernandez Montesinos, the Socialist mayor of Granada, was his brother-in-law. His death was a reminder that in the Spain of the time, virtually any consideration could expose a man to a firing squad from either side. Lorca was buried in a shallow, unmarked grave on a hillside beside several thousand other victims of the Falangist terror. He had just turned...
Skidmore spent three years as a Bliss Fellow, travelling in South America, Mexico, and Spain, and doing research on the recent political and social history of Brazil. After graduating from Denison College, in 1954, he spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford...
...said that the United States government has identified itself with the Franco regime and because of this there is little love for the U.S. in Spain...