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...always know how to be true ministers of reconciliation . . . [in] a civil war among brothers"). In December, the church's National Commission on Justice and Peace attacked the maintenance of public order by "force and repression." In January, when he took office as the new Archbishop of Madrid-Alcala, Spain's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, 64-himself the son of a working-class family-pointedly pledged that he was the "spokesman for those who have no voice to defend their legitimate aspirations-the poor...
KARENA SHIELDS Associate Professor of Anthropology-Sociology University of San Diego Alcala Park, Calif...
After her tempestuous, two-continent romance with Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin seasons ago. perfervid Cinemactress Ava Gardner was again building castles in Spain with a toreador. In the bull ring of the ancient town of Alcala de Henares, slight, curly-haired Cesar Giron, 21, was so inspired by Ava's presence in the stands that he dispatched his bull in high style, won both ears and the tail, presented his bloody trophies to Ava, who clutched an ear to her lips for a long kiss as the crowd cheered. But in another fight last week at Aranjuez, near Madrid...
Hatless, her curls flying, she motored to the Associated Press office near the Puerta de Alcala. When her black Cadillac convertible (with ducal escutcheon enameled on its door) halted, a taxi pulled up just behind. From it hurried two men in the typical trench coats of the secret police. They blocked Luisa Maria's way. "Duchess," one of them said, "you must come along with us. The chief of police wants to have a talk with you at once...
Died. Niceto Alcalá Zamora y Torres, 71, first President of the second Spanish Republic (1931-36); after long illness; in Buenos Aires. A Monarchist turned Republican, Alcala Zamora became President after a bloodless revolution in 1931, was himself kicked out of office by leftists three months before the outbreak of civil war in 1936, was finally exiled by Franco...