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...contributed to their failure; he has also been cited by police sources as having ordered the December 30, 2006 bombing at Madrid's airport, which killed two and definitively doomed those talks. "I don't know if he was 'Number One' like the papers are saying," says Carmen Gurruchaga, author of several books on ETA. "But he is one of the bad guys. He is one of the hard-liners...
...which the Bordeaux cell was exposed confirms the ways in which, experts believe, the political leadership of ETA interacts with its supporters. "The purpose of the political apparatus is to receive information and issue orders," says Florencio Dominguez, editor-in-chief of the news agency Vasco Press and author of several books on the band. "For both, ETA uses intermediaries, personal contacts who aren't well known but who can transmit information between them and their base among the [illegal] nationalist parties...
...Army soldier raising a Soviet flag atop the Reichstag over a smoldering Berlin in May 1945. That photograph is to the war in Europe what Joe Rosenthal's image of the planting of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima is to the war in the Pacific, and its author has been called the Soviet Robert Capa. Had the Red Army war photographer received his due over the years, he might well have become as famous as Capa. Instead, it is only now, posthumously, that Khaldei is getting the recognition he deserves, with the first-ever major retrospective of his work...
...Capa and author John Steinbeck had journeyed to the U.S.S.R. on a lengthy magazine assignment about the Soviet Union. At the close of their visit, the state-security police insisted on developing - and examining - Capa's film. He refused. But what to do? No acquiescence, no pictures. "Okay," Capa said finally, "but on one condition: that my friend Yevgeny Khaldei do the developing. He's the only one I'll trust." Khaldei happily complied, under watchful state-security eyes...
...Havel's Play Like?" runs a bold-type headline followed by five stars in Lidove Noviny, a daily not in the habit of running arts stories on its front pages. The business daily Hospodarske Noviny called the play the "theatrical event of the season" . "Sure, the fame of the author ? plays a role but it is an extraordinary experience nonetheless...