Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the G.O.P. breach stepped John Davis Lodge, 58, brother of 1960 Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge. Eager for a political comeback, the former Congressman (1947-51), Governor (1951-55) and Eisenhower Ambassador to Spain (1955-61) announced his Senate candidacy. Lodge hopes to avenge his 3,200-vote loss to Ribicoff for the governorship...
After the last toasts were gulped and the last paso dobles played in Athens, Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and his new wife, the former Princess Sophie of Greece, went aboard the yacht Eros, put at their service by Shipping Tycoon Stavros Niarchos, and sailed away on a long honeymoon. But when the honeymoon is over, what will the prince do? More than any event in years, the royal wedding revived speculation about the future of the Spanish monarchy - and about the man who will succeed Francisco Franco...
...week for the wedding of Greece's Princess Sophie to Prince Juan Carlos, 24-year-old son of the Spanish Pretender, Don Juan. Through the sunny streets strolled some 5,500 Spanish monarchists, all hopeful that the marriage was an omen for the return of the Bourbons to Spain. But absent was the commoner who alone could decide whether Juan Carlos would ever take the Spanish throne: Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Far from the hoopla in Athens, El Caudillo was in Spain last week dealing with the most serious unrest to beset his 24-year rule...
Immediate cause of the trouble was Spain's longest, biggest and costliest labor dispute since the Civil War. The fight began last month in the coal fields of the northern province of Asturias, where miners, alarmed at skyrocketing prices, struck for a $1.50 wage boost, to bring their pay to $2.50 a day. Though strikes are illegal, the miners stubbornly stuck to their walkout; they had no strike funds, no organization, ran the risk of losing all their social security and pension benefits from the government's puppet labor union. But their tenacity won them sympathizers; from...
...determination of the strikers served to strip away Spain's normal political apathy. Intellectuals in Madrid issued a manifesto protesting the government's news blackout of the strike; ridiculing the official explanation that the unrest was fomented by the Communists, they declared: "Nothing is said of the real social situation that caused the strikes." Admitted one of the signers: "This won't have any effect. But it gives us a little exercise in civic duties." At the University of Madrid, student riots about the mounting influence in education of Opus Dei, a powerful Roman Catholic lay order...