Word: valencia
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...World War II, Monsignor Salvatore Montes de Oca, onetime Bishop of Valencia, Venezuela, gave refuge to Italian Partisans in a monastery near Lucca, where he was staying. The Germans executed him and the Partisans he tried to save. Last week the body of the martyr was brought back to Venezuela. It lay in state in the Cathedral of Caracas, while representatives of the Church, Government and Army paid tribute, before burial in Valencia...
...crops were being gathered and they were good. On the humid shores of Lake Valencia sugar was being cut and corn harvested. The beans of coffee and cacao were stripped from highland groves in the northwest. But, as usual, the rusty soil of Venezuela had not produced enough. Given sufficient agricultural machinery from abroad, it might be five years, announced Secretary of Agriculture Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, before the nation could feed itself...
...when he got to Spain, his first lesson began to sink in: Fascism was designed for export, and anybody who did not want to import it must fight it. Somewhere between Valencia, blitzed Barcelona and Madrid, his ivory tower crumbled, and Matthews stepped from its rubble to do the best reporting of his career. Because it was also optimistic reporting, he wound up feeling as sick at heart as the Spanish Republicans...
While he practices at his piano, Valencia-born Iturbi often dictates letters to his secretary or talks to his two grandchildren. He speaks to his grandchildren in Spanish, to his butler in Italian, to his close friend Director Jean Negulesco in French, to others in a somewhat mangled English...
...Mindanao, southernmost Philippine island, U.S. troops captured the Valencia airstrips in the center of the island, and made them ready for fighters of the Thirteenth Air Force. But in southern Mindanao, Americans had one of the hardest actions of the campaign. Cabled TIME Correspondent William Gray...