Word: spain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...traditionalists, centered in Spain, want a strict charter based on the order's constitution of 1581. The legalistic 1581 document, written by Carmelite priests a year before Teresa died, specified everything from a strict regimen of fasting to the material from which sandals were to be made. Casaroli's letter declared that the 1581 constitution is the "genuine expression" of Teresa's desires. The great majority of the nuns, however, maintain that the important matter is not such details but the saint's spiritual vision, and that this is best perpetuated by following the simpler rule she wrote...
...Dear Colleague," began the letter that was dispatched last week to the 13 defense ministers attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organization conference in Luxembourg, as well as to the defense ministers of France, Spain, Japan, Australia and Israel. The message, signed "Sincerely, Caspar Weinberger," was an invitation from the U.S. Defense Secretary to participate with the U.S. in a $26 billion research program for President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as the Star Wars defense system. The U.S., said Weinberger, would appreciate a reply within 60 days...
...when the European Community's ten foreign ministers emerged bleary-eyed from a conference room atop Brussels' Charlemagne Building. They had just cleared the way for the young Iberian democracies, Spain and Portugal, to become the eleventh and twelfth members of the Community next Jan. 1. Beyond its economic impact, the event was fraught with political significance. It helped boost the stature of the two countries' governments and anchored them more firmly in the West European camp. Declared Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Moran: "Now we can get rid of the inferiority complex in international affairs that Spaniards often have...
Equally pressing were the terms for the two countries' financial contributions. Spain will receive a decreasing rebate of its value-added-tax contributions over six years, aimed at limiting the initial cost of membership. Portugal accepted a $900 million package of rebates and industrial loans, which it will use to help correct its balance of payments deficit and to modernize industry...
...Community will have to come up with an additional $1 billion annually to finance the membership of the new partners. The Community's creaking agricultural subsidy programs will have to deal with a 28% increase in the farming population, which will complicate an already critical problem of surpluses. Spain's government-subsidized steel industry will add to Western Europe's excess capacity...