Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUVENAL SANSO-Weyhe, 794 Lexington Ave. at 61st. Born in Spain, raised in the Philippines, a resident of Paris, Sanso, 34, is still on the move, has made two trips around the world. His lonely landscapes of Brittany, Manila and Manhattan omit the human presence, make nature the actor in richly detailed but desolate dramas. Colored ink paintings and prints. Through April...
Equally important, as far as the Common Market was concerned, Franco began to reform Spain's backward economy. Many rigid state controls on prices and production were abolished, and foreign investors began priming the Hispanic pump. Spain's annual industrial output climbed at a rate of 11% a year; gross national income rose at 6% to a record $13 billion last year. Gold and foreign-currency reserves, a paltry $65 million five years ago, now total $1.2 billion...
Millions of tourists flooded into Spain, spending $650 million last year alone on everything from corridas to castanets. An even more important migration went the other way. Nearly a million Spanish workers, jobless in their own country, headed out into labor-hungry Europe; today they send home nearly $200 million a year in savings, a major source of income for the Spanish economy...
Pleading the Cause. In Brussels, France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville pleaded Spain's cause logically and eloquently. Spanish diplomats had tried using the engagement of Spain's Prince Carlos and The Netherlands' Princess Irene, as well as the Spanish birth of Belgium's Queen Fabiola, to woo the Low Countries. Nothing could shake the bitter Socialist Francophobes of Belgium and Italy. "The Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio...
Delaying a formal decision until mid-April, the Six left open the possibility of further discussions with Spain over its economic future. That just about gave Spain a toe hold. But Common Market membership appears impossible as long as Franco rules. El Caudillo's economic brain-trusters would be glad enough to settle for mere trade agreements at present, but their problem now is to keep Franco encouraged despite the slap in Brussels...