Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cited the recent crash of an American B-52 bomber a Spain as an example of the danger that foreign military bases pose to countries that do not even possess nuclear weapons. The accident resulted in the scattering of radioactive particles from two bombs in part of the Spanish countryside...
...Peronistas throughout Argentina, for El Lider's return. Isabelita has given them welcome encouragement. The former chorine whom Peron took up with in 1956 shortly after his exile and married in 1961, arrived in Buenos Aires last fall with twelve suitcases, $30,000 worth of jewels and a Spanish hairdresser for a duenna-and sparked angry riots between Peronistas and anti-Peronistas. After an emotional 8,000-mile tour of the country, she settled into her present routine. From 9 to 1 she receives delegations from near and far, gives pesos to the needy, tells them...
...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 turned up were 200 chunks of metal, ranging from one of the aircraft's latrines to an old man-o'-war cannon ball...
...continue the hunt indefinitely. Was there a chance its radioactive contents were leaking into Spain's coastal waters? With Spain's big tourist season about to begin, it was a horrifying thought. U.S. Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke's duty was clear. To prove the safety of Spanish shores, he made a date with Spain's Information and Tourism Minister to take a chilly 59° F. Mediterranean dip this week-with their wives and children-in the water off Palomares...
They operated almost without precedent or textbook in a difficult culture among people to whom even Spanish was an acquired language...