Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 the same...
Some 500 parliamentarians of the Spanish Cortes leaned back against their blue-grey benches as Information and Tourism Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne declared that the legislation before them bridged "two ideological extremes-an absolute and unlimited freedom of the press and total state control." Then, with three dissenting votes, the long-debated, long-awaited Press Law was enacted. The occasion hardly did justice to the passions that its drafting aroused and the curiosity with which Spanish journalists anticipated its application. Five years in the making, the new law is the Franco regime's first broad approach since...
...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 point is that newspapers have the right to criticize...
This year, Parry is giving two courses: History 174, the Spanish Empire in America from 1492 to 1825, and a graduate seminar, History 231a, European Oceanic Discovery: Trade and Settlement from...
Among his published works are The Age of Reconnaisance, printed in 1963 which traces exploration and colonization in America, and The Spanish Seaborne Empire, published this year...