Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able to maintain commando units in each of France's nine military districts, as it once did. Today, top officials claim, there are probably no more than 30 hardcore activists left in the country. While hundreds of fanatic anti-Gaullists have found refuge in neighboring countries (500 in Spain alone), they too are now almost all under close police surveillance...
...fined. You walk on the left side and you are fined." The average Congolese has little legal redress. Today, in a nation three times the size of Texas, there are only 47 judges to hear complaints-all foreigners, imported by the U.N. from such countries as Egypt, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland...
...West Germany 4,047 5 951.9 4,999.4 Berlin 131.0 131.0 Iceland 70.2 70.2 Ireland 146.2 146.2 Italy 3,463.3 2,292.5 5,755.8 The Netherlands 1,228.6 1,252.8 2,481.4 Norway 349.8 797.0 1,146.8 Poland 522.6 522.6 Portugal 152.1 336.6 488.7 Spain 1,1736 537.7 1,711.3 Sweden 108.9 108.9 United Kingdom 7,668.2 1,045.0 8,713.2 Yugoslavia 1,703.0 693.9 2,396.9 Regional...
Older Than Harvard. Such universities as Peru's San Marcos and the University of Mexico (both established in 1551) are older by 85 years than Harvard. Founded by the Roman Catholic Church as adjuncts to the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal, they were in the beginning centers of relative enlightenment. But after the wars of independence in the early 19th century, they became part and parcel of the rigid social and political system that dominated Latin America through a long succession of tyrants. Not until after World War I did a wave of liberalism sweep the hemisphere...
...conquered everything in sight. In less than 150 years, the Arabs swept victoriously north to Asia Minor and the walls of Byzantine Constantinople, south over Persia and Afghanistan to the heart of India, east through Central Asia to the borders of China, west over Egypt and Africa to Spain and southern France. It was an incredible empire-larger than any carved out by Alexander the Great or Imperial Rome...