Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finding the H-bomb that fell into the water off Spain's south coast last Jan. 17 was hard enough. Bringing the stubby, 2,800-lb. weapon to the surface turned out to be an even more difficult problem...
...fisherman who plucked three U.S. airmen from the water off Spain's south coast last Jan. 17 remembered seeing "another parachute with half a man" fall into the sea after a nuclearladen B-52 had collided with a jet tanker. The "half a man" was a 20-megaton H-bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just...
...Fifth Rankers. For Franco Spain, that is quite a step forward. "The fact that we have an independent judiciary ensures fairness," says the publisher of the weekly Blanco y Negro, Guillermo Luca de Tena. "It's a great thing not to need prior approval from some fifth-rank official." Though the law contains more generalized restrictions than most Spanish journalists would like (such as a call for obedience "to the principles of the National Movement"), "the right of freedom of expression of ideas" is clearly stated in Article One. "When you talk about freedom of the press, the essential...
Still another augury of change in Spain came in Barcelona. Fortnight ago, some 350 students and distinguished intellectuals staged a sit-in at a Capuchin monastery to set up a "Free Student Union" in opposition to the government-controlled University Students' Syndicate. Police surrounded the monastery, shut off the electricity, food supplies and telephone, then waited exactly 45 hours before breaking in to disperse the intellectuals...
...SPAIN "welcomes U.S. capital warmly" and has a wide range of needs involving the creation of basic industries and a consumer economy. The government usually favors Spanish participation in U.S. ventures. Businessmen are warned that because of Spanish pride, incidents that would be minor elsewhere might lead to major failure in Spain...