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While a Welsh men's choir sang Rock of Ages and a cheering crowd waved Union Jacks, the civil governor of the province of Cadiz, Mariano Baquedano, last week placed a key in the brass lock of the gate that for 16 years had separated Spain from the British crown colony of Gibraltar. The lock would not budge. Embarrassed, Baquedano handed the key to a Spanish policeman, who also wrestled nervously with the reluctant mechanism. At one minute past the appointed hour of midnight, the lock finally gave way, and the large green gate swung open...
After our arrival in New York, during a session at the U.N., Spain's Foreign Minister Fernando Castiella took the floor to respond to an attack by Khrushchev on General Franco. Khrushchev blew up. He began to shout insults at the Spaniard, punctuating them by pounding his fists on the desk and then, having removed his shoe, banging it resoundingly on the desk too. Then he leaped from his chair and brandished his fists at the frail, undersized Castiella, who assumed a comical defensive pose. Security guards rushed up and separated them. We were stunned at Khrushchev's behavior...
...John Paul landed in Peru, the birthplace of liberation theology. Speaking in Lima, he attacked radicals who seek to undercut the Catholic hierarchy, and urged priests and nuns to forsake "passing ideologies." After four days in Peru, John Paul was scheduled to touch down in Port-of-Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, before flying to Rome this week...
...intends to ask Congress for an extra $150 million for El Salvador. Central America is expected to continue to receive a large portion of the military-aid allotment. The White House also wants Congress to nearly double the $9 million for Peru to help it fend off guerrilla insurgents. Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the Philippines, which are host to U.S. bases, get a high priority for military aid; assistance to the Philippines will jump from $45 million to a proposed $100 million to help it fight a growing rebel movement...
...similar fascination with the Let's Go guides induced Per H. Jebsen '96 to file an application last February to research Spain. "It just seemed like a really great job--to go to Europe and have my expenses paid...