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...higher living standard and efficient, honest democratic governance. Without addressing Congo's problems, there will be no progress in a vast area of the continent, and the so-called First World will continue trying to stop African immigrants with walls, patrol boats and airport controls. Luis Beltrán Alcalá de Henares, Spain Thank you for drawing the world's attention to the problems of Congo and indeed all Africa. The continent's problems are twofold: tribalism and colonialism. The existence of numerous incompatible tribes was not taken into consideration by their respective colonial masters at independence. African countries...
...coup. The one exception is Tejero, whose actions in the Cortes were recorded by television cameras. Yet he too has managed to pull a triumph of sorts from his debacle: he has become a folk hero to Spanish rightists. Hundreds of people visited him in the military prison at Alcalá de Henares, northeast of Madrid, forming long lines to pay their respects. The government finally moved him last week to El Ferrol in the distant northwestern region of Galicia, but the streams of admiring callers continued. Indeed, so popular has Tejero become that he is reportedly thinking of running...
...Bueno y Monreal, 54, native of Saragossa, Spain, was attorney general of the Madrid-Alcalá diocese during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Pius XII gave him one of the church's most delicate and difficult assignments by appointing him in 1954 archbishop coadjutor to the late Pedro Cardinal Segura, the terrible-tempered, reactionary Archbishop of Seville. Cardinal Segura refused to see him, tried to block Monreal's every effort to liberalize Segura's restrictions (such as forbidding Catholics to attend "public spectacles...
...noon the battle flowed into the center of Madrid. Students and Falangists, charging through the crowded Puerta del 501 and into the Calle de Alcalá, where Falange headquarters and the Education Ministry stand almost side by side, were sprayed by police with water-pumping jeeps. By that time some 2,000 law-school students had been joined by 1,000 allies from the medical school. Between bloody, skull-busting fights, Falangists chanted, "Down with capitalism!" and "Down with the monarchy!" (assuming the students to be supporters of both), and sang an antimonarchist hymn which begins...
Between midnight and 2 a.m. one October day in 1936, a line of trucks two blocks long stood outside the ornate portals of the Bank of Spain, in Madrid's Calle Alcalá. Bank employees, under the guard of picked Communist militiamen, loaded the trucks with 510 tons of gold, in bullion and coins-the bulk of the Loyalist gold hoard-worth 1.734,000,000 gold pesetas ($566 million). Although Spain's civil war was only three months old, Nazi intervention had made the Soviet-backed Loyalist position shaky...