Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atop the human-rights wave right now is Baltazar Garzon, 43, a hard-charging investigative judge of Spain's National Court. Two years ago, he began looking into human-rights abuses against Spanish citizens in Argentina, which were linked to Chile by a scheme called Operation Condor. With this plan, Pinochet and other South American junta leaders pooled their deadliest secret-police units to crush resistance to their rule. Garzon concluded that Pinochet is not covered by the traditional legal tenet, called sovereign immunity, one aspect of which protects national leaders from prosecution. Garzon argues that it does not apply...
Jovin was the third of four daughters of American scientists Donna and Thomas Jovin. She was raised in Goettingen, Germany and was a political science and international relations major at Yale University. She was fluent in Germany, English, French and Spanish and was going to become a citizen of Germany in a year...
...significant number of changes in this year's Nutcracker, some of which are for better and some for worse. Gone is the scene in which Clara and Fritz playfully try to peek through the door at the pre-gala happenings; gone also is the spicy one-woman, four-men "Spanish Dance" (it is now a simpler pas de deux). But these small changes do not make much difference in the overall appeal of the show--it remains as graceful and as cutely comical as it ever...
...demonstration spanned all ages and ethnicities. The EZF banner displayed its slogan in four different languages, and one of the participants spoke and chanted in Spanish...
...full of Wops." The British he regarded as "pink-coated, horn-blowing, supercilious bankrupts." The Blessed Isles were to him just one big "chalk-cliffed hell." McCormick ably reinforced the trait of editorial looniness so eagerly deployed by William Randolph Hearst, whose career reached its zenith in fomenting the Spanish-American...