Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until recently, strikes and demonstrations were the rare exceptions in Spain; by last week they seemed to have become the rule. Shouting "Freedom, Freedom!" 2,000 students surged out of Madrid University to scuffle with squads of grey-clad police. After the Madrid riot was put down, students in Barcelona took up the fight; even women students joined in, whacking cops with rock-filled purses. Striking miners closed down 21 pits in the always tense Asturias area, and 7,000 textile workers staged a one-day walkout in Barcelona. Steel workers struck a major cold-rolling plant in Bilbao. Elsewhere...
...sense, General Francisco Franco has brought the trouble on himself by seeking in recent months to relax the tight rein that his regime had for decades imposed on Spain. Franco recently promulgated a new constitution that will ultimately bring the country at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy, also decreed that strikes were no longer illegal provided that they were called exclusively for economic reasons. Taking him at his word, Spanish workers have struck a number of times for higher wages to offset Spain's rising cost of living. But politics also clearly played a role in last week...
...reverse his liberal trend and reimpose totalitarian controls. Now that Spaniards have had a taste of the new liberalism, however, any attempts to reassert the old autocratic rule might only provoke even greater violence among students and workers. That would wipe out Franco's plan to guide Spain into a new era of freedom before his death, and with it his hope that history will judge him as a ruler who knew when to innovate rather than to dictate...
...news, gasped Madrid's daily Pueblo, "has come like the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, like the alighting of 100,000 fiery angels." Or so it seemed to Spain's aficionados. The man who dropped the bomb, Bullfighter Manuel Benitez, 29, better known as El Cordobés, seemed unshakable in his decision. The night before, he explained, "I fell asleep, but suddenly at 3:20 in the morning I leaped out of bed ready to break the news. Providence told me to do this." So, after seven professional years that earned him some $7,000,000 plus...
There used to be lots of gold in them thar hulls. Over the centuries, Spain exacted an estimated $8 billion in tribute from its New World colonies, and probably $1 billion of that was hijacked by pirates on the high seas or sank beneath the waves during storms. These lost riches still haunt the imagination, and to addicts no space-age adventure is as exciting as the search for sunken treasure. Exciting and occasionally profitable. An engrossing sampling of one briny trove, the salvage of an armada wrecked in the 18th century off Florida, was put up for auction last...