Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this century. In the U.S., the vision of Krim's snow-white turban, flowing djella-bah and spirited Arabian steed was put to music by Sigmund Romberg in Broadway's The Desert Song. In North Africa, his tenacious struggle against the armies of France and Spain sent a throb of nationalism through the Arab world...
...holy city of Xauen. In the subsequent fighting, Krim was captured and his father killed. Escaping from the Spanish prison in Melilla, Krim broke his leg and ever after walked with a pronounced limp. Gaining the safety of the mountains, he rallied the Riffs for a jihad against Spain and in 1921 won an extraordinary victory at Anoual, capturing a Spanish general and 20,000 soldiers-most of whom were butchered on the spot. In the next four years, Krim repeatedly whipped the Spaniards and nearly drove them into the sea. When Krim declared the independence of the Riff...
...able to recall his experiences calmly and compassionately in a widely praised first novel, Child of Our Time. In his third novel, Del Castillo is more belligerent and less interesting. He now seems bent on taking revenge on all the adults who blighted his childhood in Franco's Spain...
...State Department is financing most of Lynn's year in Spain as part of a program to establish a Chair of American Studies at the University of Madrid...
Seminaries & Cemeteries. They did. A fortnight ago, at a secret meeting in Madrid, Spain's Metropolitan Council-composed of 15 ranking prelates, including four cardinals-approved in principle Castiella's "statute for non-Catholic religions." While still denying non-Catholics the right to proselytize, the proposed law will grant major Protestant churches juridical recognition as religious groups, allow them to run their own schools and seminaries, print and distribute their own translations of the Bible, operate hospitals and cemeteries. The proposed law even affirms the right of all Spaniards to hold every civic office but that of chief...