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tv   DW News  Deutsche Welle  July 23, 2019 11:00am-11:16am CEST

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and a mini skirt. and a kind of fur jacket if you get the most freaked out she was the real thing. under the. playmate but as a caveat you arrived here in december 917 i had no more than 5 pounds in my pockets and i remember my parents saying to me what are you going to do for a living what are you going to do and the next day i started working at the crazy cancer and got the book. in which i was so many i remember saying to my mother it's like the las vegas of the southwest. and there were people of all colors on the street rotor was pretty colorful be a match up there was a lot of partying and there was a bar outside of court that was let's say a bit illegal. rotter was a tiny new york. i never slept. trying to involve the locals but it didn't work out
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maybe because of the double standard of life there. that. they're looking for probably true. drinking. fighting. going. on the one day i came out of the library and saw and i will never forget this a long queue of men in front of a brothel in the avenue to san fernando my friends told me that we should stay home and not go out while the 6th fleet was in town and that's just you know much of the street was full of women on both sidewalks as they waited for the soldiers to come off base those who were granted leave because they did not get it at the same time there are about 6000 of them imagine that 6. young men in their twenty's in
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a small town mean anything here to. hairsplitting or manager venereal disease colonel parker. you see for yourself. because every time there's a war going to be a leader it takes a jump. one day we got a letter from the commander of the sixty's saying several members of his crew were infected with the neural disease. this in the. well beyond. the american ambassador biddle duke even came to a doctor he asked me what's going on here. i said nothing's going on sir show you everything here. so i took him to the bars of the 2 cabarets and that's all there is an order he asked that's all there is mr do. now ok he said and left one that was if. so for you know.
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that that. brought a lot of money into the town. the local authorities saw it as a violation of religious morality and set up a commission to protect women both locals and outside as from what they said with bad influences. to mr caitlin and if. you know might judge from seville send me a letter you want he said you and i could work something out there are too many prostitutes and. his solution was to throw them all in jail i replied that i had a different strategy to marry the man i married a lot of girls almost all of them 2 americans. i don't know any of them who married a spaniard you know only one of. you american boy. soldiers sailors civilians were college boy.
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you're killing your own people and yourselves not with guns. with automobiles. we're always warning keep out of trouble don't talk about politics don't molest women and don't do anything else that isn't completely proper for syllable charts but of course there are a few bad apples in every basket right. month on us there are always a few boys who cause trouble in town once in awhile. almost get the best and quite look out on a scandal when she caught. she'll be. times you can. see through a number of oh of course i remember one incident as the americans were celebrating their independence day some drove in from the beach at point 0 connaught completely drunk. in question no fundamental there was a man with 3 children on a donkey one termer he took he says.
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and does and pushes his car came off the road in question to the donkey with the 3 children and killed them all. you can't imagine the outrage this caused interest. since you're a member of the armed forces some will be under military control until the trial you're certain. is he and his children were buried the next day and the need be compensated their mother by giving her a job on the base in the case was never heard again. probably see that. we the jury find the defendant not guilty.
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would you look forward to seeing my wife again. that's all i intend to do 30 days recovery quote. from happening franco di that we were just told hey just go about your business as usual if you see protester you see anything happening just go about your business and and stay out of trouble. for. your. own help this means. everything dead a good gal. and the. good thing. hillsong go and.
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bring. about nothing. when the ships left but i was left time and dry if. you could tell they weren't here anymore we lost so many jobs it's not a good thing to live in a mystery to me on the matter after i stop driving taxis i started to work in a bodega hired my own business and sold mine on the base i had an idea and i could go in and out as i wished i don't know what it's like there today i don't go there anymore i mean been there for 40 years the place they and only anyone in time you. tip if you play the town's cultural roots had almost been lost. later about 30 years ago the old identities started to resurface again people were looking for their own traditions again. the feria sunny seadrill festival of the virgin carmen festival and all these things that had been forgotten at that time have now returned we even have 14 churches in the city again we've got the vehicle if you're
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. for me this is the really interesting the greatest culture shock for me because i grew up here from 8 was not coming here it was going back it was going back to the united states that was my culture shock because i went back and 16 years old and i go oh my goodness going back to my uncle i didn't know what to expect i didn't remember for me spain was home in experiencing other consciousness you see how different you are having to move even if we went to a town nearby it seemed alien to us quite different from our own. it was a great time it was a magical place rota spain back then it was they say a bubble of fishbowl but it was very special that was a beautiful time period and in this town and even the early eighty's but yeah everybody speaks the culture in yourself rhoda and there's always kind of like
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a misty foggy memory there she should have been here in the sixty's and seventy's.

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