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...shortage of fresh water. He asserted that only 16 of the rebels were Portuguese, that the rest were Communist "ruffians and scoundrels" of assorted nationalities. Galváo cried that not one of his men was a "Communist, or even a sympathizer." His navigator, a 52-year-old Spaniard named Jorge Souto Mayor, told reporters he had served in the Republican navy during the Spanish Civil War, and commanded the destroyer that sank the Franco cruiser Baleares...
...particular district, for a priest to act as a legislator can be of real benefit to the people, but in general I would call it something along the lines of a necessary evil." Said Llorente: "It's a great testimony to the strength of American culture when a Spaniard who is a Catholic priest is elected to the legislature by Eskimos...
Having lived in Spain in the mid-'50s. Author Lobsenz, 28, knows something of the parched, granitic harshness of the Spanish earth and the grave pride and passion of the Spaniard, and he conveys these with authority. Unfortunately, he lacks all control over his plot, and he makes most of his points by bending a reader's ear till it aches. After a flurry of melodrama, Vangel ends up with a whole new set of values. Here they are: "I would like to repeal suffrage for women. I would like to end all war. I would like...
...Communist who had supported Trotsky in his bitter feud with Stalin. Why, then, had he killed him? Because he had become disillusioned with his onetime idol. Sentenced to 20 years, the prisoner clung stubbornly to his story, even though Mexican authorities were able to prove he was actually a Spaniard named Ramón Mercader, a convinced Communist who fought on the Loyalists' side in the Spanish Civil War, was later enrolled in the Soviet NKVD, and eventually reached Mexico on the passport of a Canadian who had been killed in Spain while fighting with the International Brigade...
...Mexico, Trujillo's hoods caught up with a Spaniard named José Almoina Mateos, who had been the dictator's private secretary from 1945 to 1947. Though Almoina had written a slavishly pro-Trujillo book called I Was Trujillo's Secretary, he was also the author of an anonymous and bitter denunciation of the dictator called Satrap in the Caribbean. One morning last week, as Almoina walked to work in Mexico City, a green 1958 Ford ran him down. Then, just to be sure, one of the occupants of the car ran back and pumped three slugs...