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...Spain's people-including many of Franco's own supporters-are restive. They would like to form political parties other than Franco's moribund Falange, and they already operate underground parties. In the past fortnight the black letter P has appeared on the walls of Barcelona. It stands for protesto, and was put there by Catholics who want the right to organize a public Christian Democratic Party...
After reading the Art section in the March 16 issue, with the illustration of the "masterpiece" by Barcelona Abstractionist Antoni Tapies called Grey Borders, I went out quickly to my car. On the floor I found a similar "artistic gem." I had always known my treasure as the floor...
...Moving Day. Spain's five Protestant denominations (Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Plymouth Brethren) are subjected to constant harassment. In the past five months the police have closed five of their churches on technicalities-two in Barcelona and one each in Malaga, Seville and Madrid. Three years ago the police closed the only Protestant theological seminary in Spain; candidates for the ministry must now be trained by local pastors...
...operate solely on the document issued by Franco's generals after the civil war, granting permission to reopen established Protestant churches. This means that there is no legal authorization for the establishment of a new church, or even for an established church to move. A Baptist church in Barcelona was closed down last year when its congregation moved without permission from a building that was about to collapse. And in 1954, Madrid's Second Baptist Church was closed because a new Catholic charity foundation across the street complained that the Protestant church was interfering with its work...
...pies (pronounced Top-ee-ess) has the proud bearing of a bullfighter, has been called the black prince of contemporary art. Urged to follow his father in the practice of law, he turned to art when a serious bout with tuberculosis ended his career at the University of Barcelona. Hospitalized for two years, he learned exquisite draftsmanship, developed a consuming interest in the devious disciplines of surrealism...