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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...
...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...
Trading on its past, Greece has long supported itself on tourism and an economic mixture of goats and grapes, fish and ships. More recently, the country has tried hard to develop modern industry, has more than tripled industrial exports to $25 million in the past five years. All along, a valuable asset lay hidden: bauxite, the basic raw material from which aluminum is made. Now a French-Greek-American combine called Aluminum of Greece has built the country's largest plant, a $135 million factory on the Bay of Antikyra in the shadow of Mount Parnassus. The plant...
Problems & Solutions. Tourism pumps $120 million a year into Puerto Rico's economy and is the fourth-ranking industry. Yet the luxury hotels on San Juan's beach front, towering not far from the fetid slum of La Perla, symbolize the island's problems. With 2,600,000 inhabitants (686 persons per sq. mi.), Puerto Rico is one of the world's most densely populated countries. Merely to keep up with the increase in population will require a giant jump in job openings-some 200,000 more in ten years-and Governor Sanchez has made employment...
Aranguren admitted that economically at least, Spain is making headway. "I am an economic determinist," he said. "Franco has encouraged tourism, foreign investment and the emigration of Spanish workers to other European countries. But I think that the time was right for these things. He doesn't deserve much credit for them...