Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sukarno's ex-wife Ratna Sari Dewi in a tight red gown. Someone remembered that it was Henry Ford II's 51st birthday, and everyone sang "Happy Birthday, dear Henry," while he blew out the candles. It was 7 a.m. before Princess Irene of The Netherlands and Spain's Prince Carlos de Bourbon accepted a cup of coffee and called it a night...
...Since April, they have exploded dozens of plastic bombs, set fire to one mayor's home and financed their movement with the proceeds of five bank robberies. Then in early August, a bearded gunman staked out the home of Meliton Manzanas Gonzales, 58, the tough police chief of Spain's Basque region and an unpopular representative of General Francisco Franco. When Manzanas ar rived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with a volley of pistol shots and escaped across the nearby border to France...
Some of its members and funds travel across the Pyrenees from France, where there are 150,000 French Basques. Though generally less restive than their brethren in Spain, many French Basques firmly endorse the drive for independence and rarely miss a chance to let Charles de Gaulle know it. On the day he proclaimed, "Vive le Québec libre!", Basques broke out signs reading "Vive Euzkadi libre!" They also employ as graffiti an equation that at first glance is almost as incomprehensible as their language: "Three plus four equals one." It means that France's three Basque provinces...
...Spanish membership, though highly secret, numbers at least in the hundreds and probably includes several young Roman Catholic priests. In fact, many Basque priests advocate separatism as bluntly as E.T.A. guerrillas, defiantly fly the illegal Basque flag and chafe under Spain's state-supported church hierarchy. Two weeks ago, 47 young priests staged a vigil in the bishop's palace in Bilbao for six days, left only when the church agreed to demote their vicar-general and name a committee to study their demands for freedom from "temporal interference...
...boat's pulpit stood the intrepid harpooner, dart-tipped pole in hand. Down flashed the steel into a huge sperm whale. After that came a battle off Cape Finisterre that lasted several hours, reported Madrid's daily ABC, and when all the thrashing and splashing were over, Spain's Francisco Franco, 75, had landed himself a 48,000-lb. trophy. Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale. Over the years he has snagged more than 20 of the leviathans, and he has the pictures to prove it decorating...