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...These last alternatives have been denied consistently by former Socialist leader Felipe González, Prime Minister from 1982 until his defeat by the incumbent José María Aznar in 1996, and various inquiries have not found grounds to charge González with a single offense. Not so his former Interior Minister, José Barrionuevo, or his former State Security Director, Rafael Vera; both were convicted over the first GAL-claimed crime, a 1983 kidnapping...
...billion on Villalonga's watch, and in February he reaped a $17 million windfall from his options. It put him at the center of a political tempest in the run-up to Spain's elections in March. The left-wing opposition to conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a boyhood friend of Villalonga's, attacked Aznar's coziness with the Telefonica chief and the Prime Minister's tacit approval of the stock-option scheme, which the opposition characterizes as a brazen display of corporate avarice. United Left party leader Francisco Frutos branded Villalonga a bad role model for Spain...
...Aznar drew a large cheer when he announced that Spanish military service will no longer be compulsory by 2002. He also won applause when he said the United States and the European community must continue to fight against poverty and for democracy and freedom...
...However, Aznar cautioned that the United States should not yet expect too much from his country, which he says still has a long...
...Aznar, leader of the People's Party, was an unsuccessful candidate for prime minister in 1989, but subsequently won the office in a watershed election in 1996. That year he defeated the incumbent Socialist Party administration and has since led a more moderate coalition...