Word: aznar
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Jose Maria Aznar Lopez also took the speaking opportunity to tout a "new Spain" that is emerging as a world economic force...
Through an interpreter, Aznar-fresh from a NATO conference in Washington-spoke of the Western alliance's importance to the security of Europe. Spain, a NATO member, fully backs the operation in Yugoslavia, Aznar said...
CANDIDATES Felipe Gonzalez, Socialist Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, Popular Party leader OUTLOOK After 13 years of Socialist rule, the Popular Party appears likely to lead Spain to its first rightward turn since dictator Francisco Franco's death...
Jose Maria Aznar, leader of Spain's conservative opposition Popular Party, was slightly injured in a car bombing in Madrid today. The Basque separatist group ETA is believed responsible for the attack. The attack comes four months after ETA killed another leading PP figure, Gregorio Ordonez. Many of the PP's members oppose greater autonomy for the Basque provinces. TIME Spain reporter Jane Walker says that because the provinces are essentially autonomous already, with their own schools and taxation systems, ETA has steadily lost support. Thus "Every now and then they have to attack someone to keep their name...
Spaniards speak of their present desencanto, or disenchantment, as if it were akin to a disease. "Spain is ailing," says Jose Maria Aznar, head of the conservative Partido Popular. "A climate of anxiety has taken hold." Even the popular Barcelona Games, which have spurred an architectural renaissance in that aging port, have been besieged by Catalan nationalists insisting that their flag be flown and their anthem played. Last week police arrested seven armed members of the Catalan independence movement for plotting to kidnap an Olympic athlete or official. A newspaper headline groused, THE OLYMPICS WILL COST EACH TAXPAYER MORE THAN...