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...game's addicts these days know instantaneously the fate of their favorites. The largest television audience in history for a single event watched the opening game in Barcelona earlier this month: an estimated 1.5 billion people...
Spain's World Cup organizers were pleased. Barcelona's magnificent 120,000-seat Nou Camp stadium was nearly full for the inaugural contest, and many worrisome possibilities that could have spoiled it for host Spain did not come to pass. Highly regarded Argentina, which is the defending champion by virtue of beating The Netherlands in the 1978 final on its home ground in Buenos Aires, had decided to come despite the Falklands war. Great Britain's three doughty qualifiers-England, Scotland and Northern Ireland-had appeared after similar rumbles to the contrary. The Basque terrorist organization...
...text has some virtues, some manically funny apergus, such as the glimpse of reverent Yalies hand-washing the baby's diapers to pay for the pair of Mies Barcelona chairs, those comfortless icons of secular progress. But its flaw, apart from Wolfe's shaky grasp of architectural history, is that he looks with his ears. Architects tend to write manifestos when they are not being asked to build. Given the choice between what architects wrote about architecture, and what they actually built, Wolfe believes the words every time. This leads him into some strange fluffs, like his mistaken...
...began as a taut suspense drama. A band of hooded, heavily armed terrorists invaded the ground-floor offices of Barcelona's Banco Central, taking some 200 hostages and demanding the release of four army and Civil Guard officers who were under arrest for their roles in last February's attempted military coup. They threatened to kill the hostages and blow up the bank if their demands were not met. After a 37-hour siege, crack squads of special police moved in to capture the terrorists and free the hostages...
...evidence quickly mounted that the bank raid was only the first step of a plot against Spain's faltering democracy. After questioning the captured terrorists, Barcelona police hurried to a carpenter's shop in the Calle de Casanova. There they uncovered a newly dug, 10-ft.-long tunnel leading toward the Avenida Diagonal, a major thoroughfare along which King Juan Carlos and a huge armed forces day parade were to pass six days later. The shop had been rented by one of the bank raiders, Jose Maria Cuevas Jimenez, the one person to die in the police attack...