Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington held off any announcement, waiting for Spain to make the first statement. Spain held off, nervously uncertain of what to say. Finally, last week-some 44 days after the event-the two countries officially announced what the whole world had been discussing for the past six weeks: that the U.S. had indeed misplaced one H-bomb...
...nuke was one of four that fell over southern Spain Jan. 17, when a U.S. Air Force B-52 collided with a refueling tanker. The first three bombs -and four crew members-were quickly recovered. The fourth bomb was still missing. Though the bombs were unarmed and protected by radiation-proof shields, the U.S. was understandably anxious to get them all back. To that end, seven hundred U.S. airmen, soldiers, civilian technicians and Spanish troops were scouring a ten-sq.-mi. coastal area near Palomares, and 16 ships-including three deep-sea subs-were combing the ocean floor. All they...
...three recovered bombs had actually survived the fall intact. Some of the TNT detonators on the other two had exploded on impact and ruptured the shell casing, permitting some radioactive plutonium and uranium to scatter over 18 acres in the impact area. However, there was no cause for alarm, Spain's Nuclear Energy Board quickly assured. Of the 2,000 "potentially exposed" people in the area, 1,800 had been examined thus far, and none had received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there is not the slightest risk in eating meat, fish, vegetables from...
...keeping with the pioneering spirit that has become the company's credo, the opening production was the U.S. premiere of Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera's fiercely modern Don Rodrigo. Set in 8th century Spain, the opera chronicles the rise of a headstrong young king and, after he has had the bad taste to violate and jilt the daughter of a comrade in arms, his subsequent fall. The performance, honed by five weeks of 13-hour-a-day rehearsals, was excellent. The starkly stylized sets and costumes complemented the jaggedly atonal score; the acting and singing were superb...
...number of stores to 64 in nine countries from Costa Rica to Brazil (plus seven in Puerto Rico). This week its top Latin American executives will meet in Mexico City, site of the biggest operation, to discuss further expansion. Next year the company will open two stores in Spain-its first European venture-and transfer some of its Latin American chiefs there...