Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lonely Ones. The sole nonsigner in the Western camp is France. Even Franco Spain, the only Western country which does not have diplomatic relations with Moscow, has signed the treaty, leaving France isolated from all its continental neighbors. Most galling to Charles de Gaulle was West Germany's decision to sign the pact after a reassuring pitch in Bonn by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Bonn's action was doubly upsetting to France, for it followed an announcement that Germany and the U.S. will cooperate in the development of a new battle tank (TIME, Aug. 16); just...
Salazar's old Iberian neighbor and amigo, Spain's Francisco Franco, was bending slightly more with the winds, announced plans to grant a measure of autonomy to Spanish Guinea, which is made up of the "provinces" of Rio Muni, a Maryland-sized West African enclave lying between Gabon and Cameroon, and the adjacent islands of Fernando Po and Annobón. The colony's 225,000 Africans, who harvest its coffee, cocoa beans and timber, and 5,000 Europeans will be encouraged to elect a rubber-stamp Parliament loyal to El Caudillo...
...real soccer countries such as Spain and Brazil, championship games draw six-figure crowds. But when a mere 15,231 fans showed up at a Manhattan stadium last week to watch two of Europe's best teams compete for the American Challenge Cup, William Drought Cox, president of the International Soccer League, beamed with delight at the turnout. That is a big soccer crowd in the U.S.-big enough to make soccer...
Caught en route in a traffic jam, Scandalous John takes on a "hideously grinning" Buick with his bowie knife, and from then on things get worse. Author Gardner, 31, who lives on an island off Spain's Costa Brava, explains that his inspiration for this first novel was the question: "What would the American knight-errant be like and what would be his fate?" His answers seem to be Scandalous John's repeated cry, "I'm my own man," and his bloody end on a city sidewalk in a confrontation with an uncomprehending guardian of the sanitary...
...From Spain, Perón called the election a "farce" and warned: "A period of hard fighting in which violence must be the norm has just begun." But in Buenos Aires, the betting was that Illia and the No. 2 man, Alende, would join forces to give Illia the 238-vote majority he needs when the electoral college meets on July 31. They are then expected to form a coalition government that the country would accept...